KJV-Parallel Bibles
1. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2. Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5. Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7. Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8. As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9. Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11. So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
1. To the Overseer. -- `Destroy not.' -- A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?
2. Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
3. The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
4. Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
5. Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
6. O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
7. They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
8. As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
9. Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
10. The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.
11. And man saith: `Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'
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