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Do you indeed speak righteousness, O gods?
Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
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No, in heart you work unrighteousness;
On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.
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The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak lies go astray from birth.
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They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
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So that it does not hear the voice of charmers,
Or a skillful caster of spells.
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O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD.
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Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.
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Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes
along,
Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.
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Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns
He will sweep them away with a whirlwind,
the green and the burning alike.
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The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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And men will say, “Surely there is a reward for the
righteous;
Surely there is a God who judges on earth!”
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