| 1: Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye
judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? |
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| 2: Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of
your hands in the earth. |
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| 3:
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon
as they be born, speaking lies. |
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| 4: Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like
the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; |
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| 5: Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming
never so wisely. |
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| 6: Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great
teeth of the young lions, O LORD. |
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| 7: Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he
bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. |
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| 8: As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away:
like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. |
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| 9: Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away
as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. |
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| 10: The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he
shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. |
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| 11: So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the
righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. |
