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Psalms 58
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1(59) For the end. Destroy not: by David for a memorial, when Saul sent, and watched his house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me.
1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither [is it] my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.
3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4Without iniquity I ran and directed [my course aright]: awake to help me, and behold.
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5And you, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw near to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. Pause.
5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city.
6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
7Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, [say they], has heard?
7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8But you, Lord, will laugh them to scorn; you will utterly set at nothing all the heathen.
8As 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.
9will keep my strength, [looking] to you; for you, O God, are my helper.
9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10[As for] my God, his mercy shall go before me: my God will show me [vengeance] on my enemies.
10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11Slay them not, lest they forget your law; scatter them by your power; and bring them down, O Lord, my defender.
11So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.