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[1]For the Leader; Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David; Michtam.
[2]Do ye indeed speak as a righteou company? Do ye judge with equity the sons of men?
[3]Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out in the earth the violence of your hands.
[4]The wicked are estranged from the womb; the speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.
[5]Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;
[6]Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, or of the most cunning binder of spells.
[7]Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the cheek-teeth of the young lions, O 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇.
[8]Let them melt away as water that runneth apace; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
[9]Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.
[10]Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.
[11]The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
[12]And men shall say: 'Verily there is a reward for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.'
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