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For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David Michtam. |
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Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye
sons of men? |
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Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your
hands in the earth. |
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The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they
are born, speaking lies. |
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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the
deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, |
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Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely. |
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Break their teeth, O YAHUVEH, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth
of the young lions, O YAHUVEH. |
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Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his
arrows, let them be as though they were cut off. |
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Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like
the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun. |
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Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a
whirlwind, the green and the burning alike. |
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The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash
his feet in the blood of the wicked; |
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So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:
Verily there is a YAHUVEH that judgeth in the earth. |