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You plot injustice in your hearts.</p><p class="line2">You spread violence throughout the land.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/58-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>These wicked people are born sinners;</p><p class="line2">even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/58-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They spit venom like deadly snakes;</p><p class="line2">they are like cobras that refuse to listen,</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/58-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>ignoring the tunes of the snake charmers,</p><p class="line2">no matter how skillfully they play.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/58-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Break off their fangs, O God!</p><p class="line2">Smash the jaws of these lions, O LORD!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/58-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>May they disappear like water into thirsty ground.</p><p class="line2">Make their weapons useless in their hands.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/58-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>May they be like snails that dissolve into slime,</p><p class="line2">like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/58-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>God will sweep them away, both young and old,</p><p class="line2">faster than a pot heats over burning thorns.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/58-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The godly will rejoice when they see injustice avenged.</p><p class="line2">They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/58-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then at last everyone will say,</p><p class="line2">“There truly is a reward for those who live for God;</p><p class="line2">surely there is a God who judges justly here on earth.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">58:TITLE </span><span class="ft"> Hebrew </span><span class="it">miktam.</span><span class="ft"> This may be a literary or musical term.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">58:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">you gods.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">58:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Let them be trodden down and wither like grass.</span><span class="ft"> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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