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The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies (58:3) Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear (58:4) Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely (58:5) Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord (58:6) Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces (58:7) As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun (58:8) Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath (58:9) The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked (58:10) So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth
(58:11)
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