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[For the choirmaster Tune: 'Do not destroy' Of David In a quiet voice] Divine as you are, do you truly give upright verdicts? do you judge fairly the children of Adam?
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No! You devise injustice in your hearts, and with your hands you administer tyranny on the earth.
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Since the womb they have gone astray, the wicked, on the wrong path since their birth, with their unjust verdicts.
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They are poisonous as any snake, deaf as an adder that blocks its ears
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so as not to hear the magician's music, however skilful his spells.
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God, break the teeth in their mouths, snap off the fangs of these young lions, Yahweh.
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May they drain away like water running to waste, may they wither like trampled grass,
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like the slug that melts as it moves or a still-born child that never sees the sun.
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Before they sprout thorns like the bramble, green or burnt up, may retribution whirl them away.
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The upright will rejoice to see vengeance done, and will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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'So', people will say, 'the upright does have a reward; there is a God to dispense justice on earth.'
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