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  • For the choir director: A psalma of David, to be sung to the tune “Do Not Destroy!”

    Justice — do you rulersb know the meaning of the word?
    Do you judge the people fairly?
  • God Judges the Earth

    {To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.} Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
  • No! You plot injustice in your hearts.
    You spread violence throughout the land.
  • Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh 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.
  • The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
  • They spit venom like deadly snakes;
    they are like cobras that refuse to listen,
  • Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
  • ignoring the tunes of the snake charmers,
    no matter how skillfully they play.
  • Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
  • Break off their fangs, O God!
    Smash the jaws of these lions, O LORD!
  • Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
  • May they disappear like water into thirsty ground.
    Make their weapons useless in their hands.c
  • 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.
  • May they be like snails that dissolve into slime,
    like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.
  • 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.
  • God will sweep them away, both young and old,
    faster than a pot heats over burning thorns.
  • Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
  • The godly will rejoice when they see injustice avenged.
    They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
  • The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
  • Then at last everyone will say,
    “There truly is a reward for those who live for God;
    surely there is a God who judges justly here on earth.”
  • 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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