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[1] <To the chiefe musition, destroy not, a golden psalme of Dauid.> O ye that consult together, pronounce ye truely the thing that is iust? O ye sonnes of men iudge you according to equitie
[2] Nay, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your handes waygh as in a ballaunce wickednes vpon the earth
[3] The vngodly are straungers euen from their mothers wombe: assoone as they be borne, they go astray and speake a lye
[4] (58:4a) They haue poyson [within them] lyke to the poyson of a serpent: they be lyke the deafe adder that stoppeth her eares
[5] (58:4b) and wyll not heare the voyce of charmers, though he be neuer so skilfull in charming
[6] (58:5) Breake their teeth O Lorde in their mouthes: smite a sunder the chawe bones of Lions O God
[7] (58:6) Let them be dissolued as into water, let them come to naught of them selues: and when they shoote their arrowes, let them be as broken
[8] (58:7) Let them creepe away lyke a snayle that foorthwith consumeth to naught: or lyke the vntimely fruite of a woman, let them not see the sunne
[9] (58:8) As a greene thorne [kindled with fyre, goeth out] before your pottes be made whot: euen so let a furious rage bring him to naught
[10] (58:9) The righteous wyll reioyce when he seeth the vengeaunce: he wyll washe his foote steppes in the blood of the vngodly
[11] (58:10) And euery man shall say, veryly there is a rewarde for the righteous: doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth
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