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Chapter 58
Psal LEB 58:1  Of David. A miktam. Do you really speak what is right when silent? Do you judge fairly the children of humankind?
Psal LEB 58:2  No, in your heart you plan injustices; in the land you weigh out the violence of your hands.
Psal LEB 58:3  The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray from the belly, speaking lies.
Psal LEB 58:4  Their venom is like snake venom; They are like a deaf viper that closes its ear
Psal LEB 58:5  so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or the skilled caster of spells.
Psal LEB 58:6  O God, break their teeth in their mouth. Break off the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh.
Psal LEB 58:7  Let them run away like water that runs off. When he bends the bow, let his arrows be as though they were cut off.
Psal LEB 58:8  Let them be like a snail that melts away as it goes; like the stillborn of woman that do not see the sun.
Psal LEB 58:9  Before your pots can feel the heat of a thornbush, whether green or ⌞dry⌟, he will sweep it away.
Psal LEB 58:10  The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psal LEB 58:11  And people will say, “Surely there is a ⌞reward⌟ for the righteous. Surely there is a God who judges in the land.”