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| 1 To the Overseer. 'Destroy not.' A secret treasure, by David. |
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| Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men |
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| 2 Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder. |
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| 3 The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, 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] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear, |
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| 5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful. |
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| 6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah. |
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| 7 They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off. |
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| 8 As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun. |
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| 9 Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away. |
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| 10 The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked. |
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| 11 And man saith: 'Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!' |
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