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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.” |
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