There Is a God Who Judges on Earth 1Do you indeed [†]speak righteousness, O [†]gods? Do you judge [†]with equity, O sons of men? 2No, in heart you work unrighteousness; On earth you [†]prepare a path for the violence of your hands. 3The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak falsehood wander in error from [†]birth. 4They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear, 5So that it does not hear the voice of [†]charmers, Or a skillful caster of spells. 6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth; Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh. 7Let them flow away like water that runs off; When he [†]aims his arrows, let them be as [†]headless shafts. 8Let them be as a snail which [†]melts away as it goes along, Like the miscarriages of a woman which never behold the sun. 9Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the living and the burning alike. 10The righteous will be glad when he beholds the vengeance; He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11And men will say, “Surely there is a [†]reward for the righteous; Surely there is a God who judges [†]on earth!” Title Lit Do Not Destroy Title Possibly Epigrammatic Poem, Atonement Psalm 1 Or speak righteousness in silence 1 Or mighty ones, judges 1 Or uprightly the sons of men 2 Lit make level 3 Lit stomach 5 Or whisperers 7 Lit bends 7 Lit though they were cut off 8 Secretes slime 11 Lit fruit 11 Or in Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. LSBible.org For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.LSBible.org. Bible Hub |