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\c 58
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\d A psalm written by David for the choir director, to be sung using the tune "Do not destroy."
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\v 1 When you rulers speak, you never say what is right;
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\q2 you people never justly decide disputes.
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\v 2 No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong,
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\q2 and you commit violent crimes everywhere in this land of Israel.
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\v 3 Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born.
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\v 4 What wicked people say injures people like the venom of a snake.
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\q2 They refuse to listen to commands; it is as though they were deaf cobras.
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\v 5 As a result, like a snake that does not respond when a charmer plays a flute or when someone sings magic songs,
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\q2 they do not pay attention when others rebuke them.
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\v 6 God, as for these enemies who want to attack me like young lions,
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\q2 break the teeth in their mouths!
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\v 7 Cause them to disappear as water disappears in dry ground!
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\q2 Cause the arrows that they shoot to have no heads!
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\v 8 Cause them to become like snails that disappear in the slime;
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\q2 cause them to be like a baby that is born dead!
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\v 9 I hope that you will get rid of them
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\q2 as fast as thornbushes are blown away after they are cut.
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\v 10 People who do what is right will rejoice when they see God punish the wicked people;
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\q2 they will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.
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\v 11 Then people will say, "It is true that there is a reward for righteous people;
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\q2 and there is indeed a God who judges people justly here on the earth!"
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