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God Judges the Earth
{To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam.} Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?
{To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam.} Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?
No! You plot injustice in your hearts.
You spread violence throughout the land.
You spread violence throughout the land.
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
These wicked people are born sinners;
even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.
even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.
The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
They spit venom like deadly snakes;
they are like cobras that refuse to listen,
they are like cobras that refuse to listen,
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
ignoring the tunes of the snake charmers,
no matter how skillfully they play.
no matter how skillfully they play.
Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely.
Break off their fangs, O God!
Smash the jaws of these lions, O LORD!
Smash the jaws of these lions, O LORD!
O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:
May they be like snails that dissolve into slime,
like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.
like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.
Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.
God will sweep them away, both young and old,
faster than a pot heats over burning thorns.
faster than a pot heats over burning thorns.
Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, -- they shall be whirled away.
The godly will rejoice when they see injustice avenged.
They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked: