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| 1 To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam. Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men? |
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| 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. |
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| 3 The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies. |
Are estranged – By heredity. R3133:3
They go astray – The image of God has largely given place to the image of Satan. R3773:6
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| 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear; |
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| 5 Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely. |
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| 6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah. |
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| 7 Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted: |
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| 8 Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; like the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun. |
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| 9 Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, --they shall be whirled away. |
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| 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked: |
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| 11 And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. |
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