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1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?
2 Yes, in heart you operate wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] shuts her ear;
5 Which will not listen to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
The flesh cannot be controlled. It has to be put to death.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD [Yahweh].
7 Let them melt away as waters [that] run continually: [when] he bends [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail [that] melts, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.
Good picture of a snail melting in its slime.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he will take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.
10 The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man will say, Truly [there is] a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God that judges in the earth.