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Psalms 57

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1For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial.
1(58) For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If you⌃ do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you⌃ judge rightly, you⌃ sons of men.
2If ye do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men.
2For you⌃ work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
3For ye work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
3Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
4Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
4Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
5Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
5which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.
6which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skilfully by the wise.
6God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
7God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
7They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
8They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
8They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
9They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
9Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
10Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.