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58:1  To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David. Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
58:2  No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
58:3  The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
58:4  They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
58:5  so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
58:6  O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!
58:7  Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
58:8  Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
58:9  Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
58:10  The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:11  Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.”