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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David. Do you rulers really pronounce just decisions? Do you judge people fairly? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Their venom is like that of a snake, like a deaf serpent that does not hear, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5that does not respond to the magicians, or to a skilled snake-charmer. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6O God, break the teeth in their mouths! Smash the jawbones of the lions, O LORD! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass! |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The godly will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then observers will say, "Yes indeed, the godly are rewarded! Yes indeed, there is a God who judges in the earth!" |
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