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Chapter 58 |
| 1 | Do ye indeed
speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of
men? |
| 2 |
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of
your hands in the earth. |
| 3 | The wicked are estranged from the womb: they
go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. |
| 4 | Their poison
is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her
ear; |
| 5 |
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming
never so wisely. |
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6 | Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out
the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. |
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7 | Let them melt away as
waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let
them be as cut in pieces. |
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8 | As a snail which melteth, let every one
of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see
the sun. |
| 9
| Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them
away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. |
| 10 | The
righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in
the blood of the wicked. |
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11 | So that a man shall say, Verily there
is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the
earth. |
