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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For the director of music. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." Of David. A miktam. Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall short. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along, like a stillborn child that never sees the sun. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns-- whether they be green or dry--the wicked will be swept away. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then people will say, "Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth." |
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