# Psalm 58 To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David. 
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1. Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly? 
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2. No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth. 
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3. The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies. 
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4. They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear, 
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5. so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter. 
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6. O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD! 
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7. Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted. 
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8. Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun. 
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9. Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away! 
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10. The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked. 
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11. Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.” 

(ESV)