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[For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial.]
[1] If ye do indeed speak righteousness, then do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men.
[2] For ye work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
[3] Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
[4] Their venom is like that of a serpent; as that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
[5] which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor heed the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.
[6] God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
[7] They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
[8] They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
[9] Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
[10] The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
[11] And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.
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