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David exposes unjust judgment and ingrained wickedness, uses severe images for the destruction of violent men, and ends saying the righteous will recognize that God judges in the earth.
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Psalms 58
David exposes unjust judgment and ingrained wickedness, uses severe images for the destruction of violent men, and ends saying the righteous will recognize that God judges in the earth.
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1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge…2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence…3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray…4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they…5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming…6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out…7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when…8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them…9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take…10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he…11So that a man shall say, Verily there is a…