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NEW INTERNATIONAL READER’S VERSION
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Are you rulers really fair when you speak?
Do you judge people honestly?
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No, in your hearts you plan to be unfair.
With your hands you do terrible things on the earth.
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Even from birth those who are evil go down the wrong
path.
From the day they are born they go the wrong way and speak lies.
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Their words are like the poison of a snake.
They are like the poison of a cobra that has covered up its ears.
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It won’t listen to any tune of a snake charmer,
even if the charmer really plays well.
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God, break the teeth in the mouths of those sinners!
Lord, tear out the sharp teeth of those lions!
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Let those people disappear like water that flows away.
When they draw their bows, let their arrows be dull.
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Let them be like a slug that melts away as it moves
along.
Let them be like a baby that is born dead and never sees the sun.
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Evil people will be swept away quicker than a pot can
feel
the heat of thorns burning under it.
And it doesn’t matter if the thorns are green or dry.
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Godly people will be glad when those who have hurt them
are paid back.
They will wash their feet in the blood of those who do evil.
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Then people will say,
“The godly will get their reward.
There really is a God who judges the earth.”
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