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019:058:001
Do ye indeed speak righteousness,
O congregation?
do ye judge uprightly,
O ye sons of men?

019:058:002
Yea,
in heart ye work wickedness;
ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

019:058:003
The wicked are estranged from the womb:
they go astray as soon as they be born,
speaking lies.

019:058:004
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:
they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

019:058:005
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers,
charming never so wisely.

019:058:006
Break their teeth,
O God,
in their mouth:
break out the great teeth of the young lions,
O LORD.

019:058:007
Let them melt away as waters which run continually:
when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows,
let them be as cut in pieces.

019:058:008
As a snail which melteth,
let every one of them pass away:
like the untimely birth of a woman,
that they may not see the sun.

019:058:009
Before your pots can feel the thorns,
he shall take them away as with a whirlwind,
both living,
and in his wrath.

019:058:010
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:
he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

019:058:011
So that a man shall say,
Verily there is a reward for the righteous:
verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.