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Psalm 58 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Prayer for the Punishment of the Wicked.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:1 -

For the music director; set to [fn]Al-tashheth. A [fn]Mikhtam of David.

Do you indeed [fn]speak righteousness, you [fn]gods?

Do you judge [fn]fairly, you sons of mankind?

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No, in heart you practice injustice;

On earth you clear a way for the violence of your hands.

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The wicked have turned away from the womb;

These who speak lies go astray from [fn]birth.

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They have venom like the venom of a serpent;

Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

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So that it does not hear the voice of [fn]charmers,

Or a skillful caster of spells.

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God, shatter their teeth in their mouth;

Break out the fangs of the young lions, LORD.

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May they flow away like water that runs off;

When he [fn]aims his arrows, may they be as [fn]headless shafts.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:8 -

May they be like a snail which goes along in slime,

Like the miscarriage of a woman that never sees the sun.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:9 -

Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns

He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the [fn]green and the burning alike.

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The righteous will rejoice when he sees vengeance;

He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

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And people will say, “There certainly is [fn]a reward for the righteous;

There certainly is a God who judges on the earth!”

NASB20 Footnotes
Lit Do Not Destroy
Possibly Epigrammatic Poem or Atonement Psalm
Another reading is speak righteousness in silence
Or mighty ones; or judges
Or mankind fairly?
Lit the womb
Or whisperers
Lit bends
Lit though they were cut off
Lit living
Lit fruit
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