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58:1  For the music director, according to Do not Destroy. Of David. A miktam. Do you really speak what is right when silent? Do you judge fairly the children of humankind?
58:2  No, in your heart you plan injustices; in the land you weigh out the violence of your hands.
58:3  The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray from the belly, speaking lies.
58:4  Their venom is like snake venom; They are like a deaf viper that closes its ear
58:5  so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or the skilled caster of spells.
58:6  O God, break their teeth in their mouth. Break off the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh.
58:7  Let them run away like water that runs off. When he bends the bow, let his arrows be as though they were cut off.
58:8  Let them be like a snail that melts away as it goes; like the stillborn of woman that do not see the sun.
58:9  Before your pots can feel the heat of a thornbush, whether green or dry, he will sweep it away.
58:10  The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:11  And people will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous. Surely there is a God who judges in the land.”