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Do you rulers speak righteousness?
Do you judge uprightly, you people?
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No, you commit wickedness in your heart;
you distribute violence throughout the land with your hands.
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The wicked go astray even when they are in the womb;
they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
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Their poison is like a snake's poison;
they are like a deaf asp that stops up its ears,
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that pays no attention to the voice of charmers,
no matter how skillful they are.
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Shatter their teeth in their mouths, God;
break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
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Let them melt away as water that runs off;
when they shoot their arrows, let them be as though they had no points.
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Let them be like a snail that melts and passes away,
like the untimely born child of a woman that never sees the sunlight.
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Before your pots can feel the thorn's burning heat,
he will take them away with a whirlwind,
the green thorns and the burning thorns alike.
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The righteous will rejoice when he sees God's vengeance;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
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so that men will say,
"Truly, there is a reward for the righteous person;
truly there is a God who judges the earth."