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58:1  For the leader. Do not destroy. A miktam of David.
58:2  Do you indeed pronounce justice, O gods; do you judge fairly you children of Adam?
58:3  No, you freely engage in crime; your hands dispense violence to the earth.
58:4  The wicked have been corrupt since birth; liars from the womb, they have gone astray.
58:5  Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a serpent stopping its ears,
58:6  So as not to hear the voice of the charmer or the enchanter with cunning spells.
58:7  O God, smash the teeth in their mouths; break the fangs of these lions, Lord!
58:8  Make them vanish like water flowing away; trodden down, let them wither like grass.
58:9  Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away, like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.
58:10  Suddenly, like brambles or thistles, have the whirlwind snatch them away.
58:11  Then the just shall rejoice to see the vengeance and bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:12  Then people will say: “Truly there is a reward for the just; there is a God who is judge on earth!”