| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For the choir director: "Do Not Destroy." A Davidic Miktam. Do you really speak righteously, you mighty ones? Do you judge people fairly? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2No, you practice injustice in your hearts; with your hands you weigh out violence in the land. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The wicked go astray from the womb; liars err from birth. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They have venom like the venom of a snake, like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5that does not listen to the sound of the charmers who skillfully weave spells. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6God, knock the teeth out of their mouths; LORD, tear out the young lions' fangs. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They will vanish like water that flows by; they will aim their useless arrows. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Like a slug that moves along in slime, like a woman's miscarried child, they will not see the sun. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns-- whether green or burning-- He will sweep them away. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The righteous one will rejoice when he sees the retribution; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then people will say," Yes, there is a reward for the righteous! There is a God who judges on earth!" |
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