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The American Standard Version of 1901

Psalms 58

1

For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. Michtam. 1 Do ye indeed 2 in silence speak righteousness? Do ye 3 judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? 1) Or Is the righteousness ye should speak dumb? 2) Or as otherwise read O ye gods ; Or O ye mighty ones 3) Or judge uprightly the sons of men

2

Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

3

The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are 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 hearkeneth not to the voice of 1 charmers, Charming never so wisely. 1) Or enchanters

6

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

7

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

8

Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, 1 that hath not seen the sun. 1) Or, like them that have not seen the sun

9

Before your pots can feel the thorns, 1 He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike. 1) Or Wrath shall take them away while living as with a whirlwind

10

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;

11

So that men shall say, Verily there is 1 a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. 1) Heb fruit



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