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58:1  For the choir director; al tashcheth; a miktam by David. Do you rulers really give fair verdicts? Do you judge Adam’s descendants fairly?
58:2  No, you invent new crimes on earth, and your hands spread violence.
58:3  Even inside the womb wicked people are strangers to God. From their birth liars go astray.
58:4  They have poisonous venom like snakes. They are like a deaf cobra that shuts its ears
58:5  so that it cannot hear the voice of a snake charmer or of anyone trained to cast spells.
58:6  O Elohim, knock the teeth out of their mouths. Break the young lions’ teeth, O Yahweh.
58:7  Let them disappear like water that drains away. When they aim their bows, let their arrows miss the target.
58:8  Let them become like a snail that leaves behind a slimy trail or like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.
58:9  Let God sweep them away faster than a cooking pot is heated by burning twigs.
58:10  Righteous people will rejoice when they see God take revenge. They will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.
58:11  Then people will say, “Righteous people certainly have a reward. There is an Elohim who judges on earth.”