Bible
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- DO YOU indeed in silence speak righteousness, O you mighty ones? [Or is the righteousness, rightness, and justice you should speak quite dumb?] Do you judge fairly and uprightly, O you sons of men?
- 2
- No, in your heart you devise wickedness; you deal out in the land the violence of your hands.
- 3
- The ungodly are perverse and estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
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- Their poison is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder or asp that stops its ear,
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- Which listens not to the voice of charmers or of the enchanter never casting spells so cunningly.
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- Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths; break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.
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- Let them melt away as water which runs on apace; when he aims his arrows, let them be as if they were headless or split apart.
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- Let them be as a snail dissolving slime as it passes on or as a festering sore which wastes away, like [the child to which] a woman gives untimely birth that has not seen the sun.
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- Before your pots can feel the thorns [that are placed under them for fuel], He will take them away as with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.
- 10
- The [unyieldingly] righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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- Men will say, Surely there is a reward for the [uncompromisingly] righteous; surely there is a God Who judges on the earth.
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