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58:1  For the music director: “Do Not Destroy,” a Michtam of David.
58:2  Do you really speak of justice, O “gods”? Do you judge with fairness, sons of man?
58:3  No, in heart you devise injustice. Your hands weigh out violence on earth.
58:4  The wicked are strangers from the womb. Speaking lies, they go astray from birth.
58:5  Their venom is like a serpent’s venom, like a deaf cobra shutting its ear—
58:6  not hearing the voice of charmers, or a cunning spell binder.
58:7  O God, break their teeth in their mouths. Tear out the fangs of young lions, Adonai.
58:8  Let them flow away like water that runs off. When he bends his bow, let the arrows be cut off.
58:9  Like a slug melting away as it slithers, like a woman’s miscarriage, may they never see the sun.
58:10  Even before your pots can feel a thorn —whether alive or ablaze— He will sweep the wicked away.
58:11  The righteous one will rejoice when he beholds vengeance, when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:12  Then men will say: “There really is a reward for the righteous. There really is a God who judges on earth!”