Psalms 58:1 (ASV)
Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

Psalms 58:2 (ASV)
Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Psalms 58:3 (ASV)
The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Psalms 58:4 (ASV)
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: `They are' like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,

Psalms 58:5 (ASV)
Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely.

Psalms 58:6 (ASV)
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

Psalms 58:7 (ASV)
Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

Psalms 58:8 (ASV)
`Let them be' as a snail which melteth and passeth away, `Like' the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

Psalms 58:9 (ASV)
Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

Psalms 58:10 (ASV)
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;

Psalms 58:11 (ASV)
So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
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