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1 Do you really speak righteousness, you silent ones?
Do you judge uprightly, human beings?
2 Rather, in your heart you work injustice;
on the earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb;
those who speak lies go astray from birth.
4 Their venom is like a serpent’s venom, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear
5 and will not listen to the voice of charmers, however skillful the spellbinder.
6 God, break the teeth in their mouths;
shatter the fangs of the young lions, LORD.
7 Let them melt away like water that flows off;
when he shoots his arrows, let them be cut to pieces.
8 Let them be like a snail that melts as it moves, like a woman’s stillborn child that never sees the sun.
9 Before your pots feel the heat of the thornwood, he will sweep it away in a whirlwind, green or burning alike.
10 The righteous man will rejoice when he sees vengeance;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Then people will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
surely there is a God who judges on earth.”