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58:1 {To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam.} Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men? 58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. 58:3 The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies. 58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear; 58:5 Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely. 58:6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah. 58:7 Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted: 58:8 Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun. 58:9 Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, -- they shall be whirled away. 58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked: 58:11 And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. 58:12 {To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.} Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God; secure me on high from them that rise up against me.