[For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial.][1]If ye do indeed speak righteousness, then do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men.[2]For ye work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.[3]Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.[4]Their venom is like that of a serpent; as that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;[5]which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor heed the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.[6]God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.[7]They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.[8]They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.[9]Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.[10]The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.[11]And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.
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Author: Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)
Source: ecmarsh.com