| The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000. | | The Psalms | | 58 |
A Prayer for the Punishment of the Wicked |
| To the chief Musician, Altas'chith, Michtam of David. |
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Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?
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Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? |
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Yea, in heart ye work wickedness;
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ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. |
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The wicked are estranged from the womb:
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they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. |
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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:
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they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; |
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which will not hearken to the voice of charmers,
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charming never so wisely. |
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Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:
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break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. |
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Let them melt away as waters which run continually:
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when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, |
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let them be as cut in pieces. |
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As a snail which melteth,
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let every one of them pass away: |
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like the untimely birth of a woman, |
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that they may not see the sun. |
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Before your pots can feel the thorns,
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he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. |
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The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:
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he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. |
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So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:
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verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. |
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