| Chapter 57 |
1 | Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.
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2 | If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.
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3 | For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
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4 | The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
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5 | Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
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6 | Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
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7 | God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
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8 | They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
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9 | Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
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10 | Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
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11 | The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
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12 | And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.
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