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You think only of the evil you can do,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_58_2">and commit crimes of violence in the land.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_58_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.58.3" class="v19_58_3">3</span>Evildoers go wrong all their lives;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_58_3">they tell lies from the day they are born.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_58_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.58.4" class="v19_58_4">4</span>They are full of poison like snakes;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_58_4">they stop up their ears like a deaf cobra,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_58_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.58.5" class="v19_58_5">5</span>which does not hear the voice of the snake charmer,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_58_5">or the chant of the clever magician.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_58_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.58.6" class="v19_58_6">6</span>Break the teeth of these fierce lions, O God.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_58_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.58.7" class="v19_58_7">7</span>May they disappear like water draining away;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_58_7">may they be crushed like weeds on a path.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.58.7!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_58_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.58.8" class="v19_58_8">8</span>May they be like snails that dissolve into slime;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_58_8">may they be like a baby born dead that never sees the light.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_58_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.58.9" class="v19_58_9">9</span>Before they know it, they are cut down like weeds;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_58_9">in his fierce anger God will blow them away</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_58_9">while they are still living.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.58.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_58_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.58.10" class="v19_58_10">10</span>The righteous will be glad when they see sinners punished;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_58_10">they will wade through the blood of the wicked.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_58_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.58.11" class="v19_58_11">11</span>People will say, “The righteous are indeed rewarded;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_58_11">there is indeed a God who judges the world.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">HEBREW TITLE: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A psalm by David.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">58.1: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">rulers; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">gods. </char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">58.7: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">may … path; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">58.9: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Verse 9 in Hebrew is unclear.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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