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Chapter 58
Psal OEBcth 58:1  Do you speak what is right, you gods? With equity judge you your people?
Psal OEBcth 58:2  In the land you practise iniquity --- all of you; violence do you dispense with your hands.
Psal OEBcth 58:3  The wicked go astray from the womb liars take the wrong path from their birth.
Psal OEBcth 58:4  Venom have they like the venom of snakes, they are like the deaf adder that stops her ears,
Psal OEBcth 58:5  and refuses to listen to the voice of the charmer, or binder of spells, no matter how cunning.
Psal OEBcth 58:6  O God, break to pieces the teeth in their mouth, tear out the great teeth of the young lions, Lord.
Psal OEBcth 58:7  May they melt away like running water! Like tender grass, cut down may they be!
Psal OEBcth 58:8  Like the snail that dissolves on its crawling path, like the birth untimely which sees not the sunlight.
Psal OEBcth 58:9  Faster than a thorn-fire heats your pots, he will come with his tempest and sweep them away.
Psal OEBcth 58:10  The sight of such vengeance will gladden the righteous; their feet they will wash in the blood of the wicked.
Psal OEBcth 58:11  People will say, “Yes, the just are rewarded: yes, on the earth is a God who is judge.”