[an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, O gods? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men? |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2No, in heart you work unrighteousness; On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear, |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So that it does not hear the voice of charmers, Or a skillful caster of spells. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth; Break out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Let them flow away like water that runs off; When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along, Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; Surely there is a God who judges on earth!" |
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