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To the chief Musician[H5329], Altaschith[H516], Michtam[H4387] of David[H1732]. Do ye indeed[H552]speak[H1696]righteousness[H6664], O congregation?[H482] do ye judge[H8199]uprightly[H4339], O ye sons[H1121] of men?[H120]
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Yea, in heart[H3820] ye work[H6466]wickedness[H5766]; ye weigh[H6424] the violence[H2555] of your hands[H3027] in the earth[H776].
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The wicked[H7563] are estranged[H2114] from the womb[H7358]: they go astray[H8582] as soon as they be born[H990], speaking[H1696]lies[H3577].
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Their poison[H2534] is like[H1823] the poison[H2534] of a serpent[H5175]: they are like[H1823] the deaf[H2795]adder[H6620] that stoppeth[H331] her ear[H241];
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Which will not hearken[H8085] to the voice[H6963] of charmers[H3907], charming[H2266] never so wisely[H2449].
6Break[H2040] their teeth[H8127], O God[H430], in their mouth[H6310]: break[H2040]out[H5422] the great teeth[H4459] of the young lions[H3715], O LORD[H3068].
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Let them melt away[H3988] as waters[H4325] which run continually[H1980]: when he bendeth[H1869] his bow to shoot his arrows[H2671], let them be as cut in pieces[H4135].
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As a snail[H7642] which melteth[H8557], let every one of them pass away[H1980]: like the untimely birth[H5309] of a woman[H802], that they may not see[H2372] the sun[H8121].
9
Before your pots[H5518] can feel[H995] the thorns[H329], he shall take them away as with a whirlwind[H8175], both living[H2416], and in his wrath[H2740].
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The righteous[H6662] shall rejoice[H8055] when he seeth[H2372] the vengeance[H5359]: he shall wash[H7364] his feet[H6471] in the blood[H1818] of the wicked[H7563].
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So that a man[H120] shall say[H559], Verily there is[H3426] a reward[H6529] for the righteous[H6662]: verily he is[H3426] a God[H430] that judgeth[H8199] in the earth[H776].