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The Book of Psalms

Geneva Bible 1599

- Chapter 58 -

God judges the earth

1
To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation, speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly?
2
Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
3
The wicked are strangers from ye euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
4
Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
5
Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
6
Breake their teeth, O God, in their breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
7
Let them melt like the waters, let them passe when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.
8
Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.
9
As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.
10
The righteous shall reioyce when he seeeth the he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.
11
And men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.