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| 1 [[To the Chief Musician. "Do not Destroy." A precious Psalm, of David.]] Are ye, indeed, silent [when] righteousness, ye should speak? When, with equity, ye should judge, O ye sons of men? |
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| 2 Aye! ye all do work, perversity,–Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence! |
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| 3 Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood; |
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 unto the poison of a serpent, Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth his ear; |
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| 5 That will not hearken to the voice of whisperers, Though the wise one try to bind him with spells. |
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| 6 O God! break away their teeth in their mouth, The biters of the young lions, knock thou out, O Yahweh! |
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| 7 Let such men flow away like waters that disperse themselves: He prepareth his arrow, Like [grass] let them be cut down: |
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| 8 Like a snail, which melteth away as it goeth, An untimely birth of a woman, which hath not seen the sun: |
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| 9 Before your kettles can perceive the [kindled] bramble, Be he green or be he withered, he shall be swept away. |
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| 10 The righteous man will rejoice when he hath seen an avenging, His feet, will he bathe in the blood of the lawless one:– |
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| 11 So that a son of earth may say–Surely there is fruit for the righteous man! Surely there are gods who judge in the earth! |
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