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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?
  • The Just Judgment of the Wicked

    To the Chief Musician. Set to [a]“Do Not Destroy.” A Michtam of David.

    Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones?
    Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?
  • No! You plot injustice in your hearts.
    You spread violence throughout the land.
  • No, in heart you work wickedness;
    You 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.
  • The wicked are estranged from the womb;
    They go astray as soon as they are 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 cobra that stops its ear,
  • ignoring the tunes of the snake charmers,
    no matter how skillfully they play.
  • Which will not heed the voice of charmers,
    Charming ever so skillfully.
  • Break off their fangs, O God!
    Smash the jaws of these lions, O LORD!
  • Break[b] their teeth in their mouth, O God!
    Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
  • May they disappear like water into thirsty ground.
    Make their weapons useless in their hands.c
  • Let them flow away as waters which run continually;
    When he bends his bow,
    Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.
  • May they be like snails that dissolve into slime,
    like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.
  • Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,
    Like a stillborn child 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 burning thorns,
    He shall take them away as with a whirlwind,
    As in His living and burning 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 sees 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 men will say,
    “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
    Surely He is God who judges in the earth.”

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