| 58:1
| Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly,
O ye sons of men?
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| 58:2
| Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in
the earth.
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| 58:3
| The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they
be born, speaking lies.
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| 58:4
| Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf
adder that stoppeth her ear;
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| 58:5
| Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so
wisely.
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| 58:6
| Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of
the young lions, O LORD.
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| 58:7
| 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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| 58:8
| 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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| 58:9
| 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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| 58:10
| The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash
his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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| 58:11
| So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:
verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
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