The Book of Psalms 58

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1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness O congregation do ye judge uprightly O ye sons of men ⚑

2 Yea in heart ye work wickedness ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth ⚑

3 The wicked are estranged from the womb they go astray as soon as they be born speaking lies ⚑

4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear ⚑

5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers charming never so wisely ⚑

6 Break their teeth O God in their mouth break out the great teeth of the young lions O LORD ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

9 Before your pots can feel the thorns he shall take them away as with a whirlwind both living and in his wrath ⚑

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked ⚑

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 ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain