| Psalms 58:1 | (58:1) For the Leader; Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David; Michtam. (58:2) Do ye indeed speak as a righteous company? Do ye judge with equity the sons of men?
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| Psalms 58:2 | (58:3) Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out in the earth the violence of your hands.
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| Psalms 58:3 | (58:4) The wicked are estranged from the womb; the speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.
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| Psalms 58:4 | (58:5) Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;
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| Psalms 58:5 | (58:6) Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, or of the most cunning binder of spells.
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| Psalms 58:6 | (58:7) Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the cheek-teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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| Psalms 58:7 | (58:8) Let them melt away as water that runneth apace; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
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| Psalms 58:8 | (58:9) Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.
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| Psalms 58:9 | (58:10) Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.
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| Psalms 58:10 | (58:11) The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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| Psalms 58:11 | (58:12) And men shall say: 'Verily there is a reward for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.'
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