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- 0:03Speaker 1: Psalm fifty eight for the Chief Musician, to the tune
- 0:07Speaker 1: of do not destroy a poem by David. Do you
- 0:12Speaker 1: indeed speak righteousness silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you
- 0:16Speaker 1: sons of men? No, in your heart you plot injustice.
- 0:20Speaker 1: You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
- 0:23Speaker 1: The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward
- 0:27Speaker 1: as soon as they are born, speaking lies. Their poison
- 0:30Speaker 1: is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf
- 0:33Speaker 1: cobra that stops its ear, which doesn't listen to the
- 0:36Speaker 1: voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be,
- 0:41Speaker 1: break their teeth God in their mouth, break out the
- 0:44Speaker 1: great teeth of the young lions jahweh. Let them vanish
- 0:47Speaker 1: as water that flows away when they draw the bow.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Let their arrows be made blunt. Let them be like
- 0:54Speaker 1: a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn
- 0:57Speaker 1: child who has not seen the sun before your pots
- 1:01Speaker 1: can feel the heat of the thorns. He will sweep
- 1:04Speaker 1: away the green and the burning. Alike. The righteous shall
- 1:08Speaker 1: rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his
- 1:11Speaker 1: feet in the blood of the wicked, so that men
- 1:14Speaker 1: shall say, most assuredly, there is a reward for the righteous.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Most assuredly there is a God who judges the earth.