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58:1  Do you really speak what is right, you gods? Do you really judge humans fairly?
58:2  No: in your hearts you plan injustice; your hands do violence on the earth.
58:3  The wicked backslide from the womb; liars go astray from birth.
58:4  Their venom is like a snake’s venom— like a deaf cobra’s—one that shuts its ears
58:5  so it can’t hear the snake charmer’s voice or the spells of a skillful enchanter.
58:6  God, break their teeth out of their mouths! Tear out the lions’ jawbones, Lord!
58:7  Let them dissolve like water flowing away. When they bend the bow, let their arrows be like headless shafts.
58:8  Like the snail that dissolves into slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, let them never see the sun.
58:9  Before your pots feel the thorns, whether green or burned up, God will sweep them away!
58:10  But the righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done, when they wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:11  Then it will be said: “Yes, there is a reward for the righteous! Yes, there is a God who judges people on the earth.”