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World English Bible Classic
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David.
[1] Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones?Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
[2] No, in your heart you plot injustice.
You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
[3] The wicked go astray from the womb.
They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
[4] Their poison is like the poison of a snake,
like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
[5] which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers,
no matter how skillful the charmer may be.
[6] Break their teeth, God, in their mouth.
Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
[7] Let them vanish like water that flows away.
When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
[8] Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away,
like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
[9] Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns,
he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
[10] The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance.
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
[11] so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous.
Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”
King James Version
To the chief Musician, H5329 (PielPtc) Al-taschith, H516 (HiphImpf) Michtam H4387 of David. H1732
[1] Do ye indeed H552 speak H1696 (PielImpf) righteousness, H6664 O congregation? H482Do ye judge H8199 (QalImpf) uprightly, H4339 O ye sons H1121 of men? H120
[2] Yea, in heart H3820 ye work H6466 (QalImpf) wickedness; H5766
Ye weigh H6424 (PielImpf) the violence H2555 of your hands H3027 in the earth. H776
[3] The wicked H7563 are estranged H2114 (QalPerf) from the womb: H7358
They go astray H8582 (QalPerf) as soon as they be born, H990§ speaking H1696 (QalActPtc) lies. H3577
[4] Their poison H2534 is like H1823 the§ poison H2534 of a serpent: H5175
They are like the deaf H2795 adder H6620§ that stoppeth H331 (HiphImpf) her ear; H241
[5] Which will not hearken H8085 (QalImpf) to the voice H6963 of charmers, H3907 (PielPtc)
Charming H2266 (QalActPtc) never so wisely. H2449 (PualPtc)§
[6] Break H2040 (QalImpv) their teeth, H8127 O God, H430 in their mouth: H6310 Break out H5422 (QalInf) the great teeth H4459 of the young lions, H3715 O Lord. H3068
[7] Let them melt away H3988 (NiphImpf) as waters H4325 which run continually: H1980 (HithImpf) when he bendeth H1869 (QalImpf) his bow to shoot his arrows, H2671 let them be as cut in pieces. H4135 (HiplImpf)
[8] As a snail H7642 which melteth, H8557 let every one of them pass away: H1980 (QalImpf) Like the untimely birth H5309 of a woman, H802
That they may not see H2372 (QalPerf) the sun. H8121
[9] Before your pots H5518 can feel H995 (QalImpf) the thorns, H329
He shall take them away as with a whirlwind, H8175 (QalImpf) both living, H2416 and in his wrath.§ H2740
[10] The righteous H6662 shall rejoice H8055 (QalImpf) when he seeth H2372 (QalPerf) the vengeance: H5359
He shall wash H7364 (QalImpf) his feet H6471 in the blood H1818 of the wicked. H7563
[11] So that a man H120 shall say, H559 (QalImpf) Verily there is a reward H6529 for§ the righteous: H6662
Verily he is H3426 a God H430 that judgeth H8199 (QalActPtc) in the earth. H776
Footnotes
- § 58:3 Heb. from the belly
- § 58:4a Heb. according to the likeness
- § 58:4b Or, asp
- § 58:5 Or, be the charmer never so cunning
- § 58:9 Heb. as living, as wrath
- § 58:11 Heb. fruit of the etc.
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