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Prayer for the Punishment of the Wicked.For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David. | ||||
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| 1 For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, O gods? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men? | 1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? | 1 Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? | 1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title. If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men. | 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 No, in heart you work unrighteousness; On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands. | 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. | 2 Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. | 2 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth. | 2 Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder. | 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth. | 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. | 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. | 3 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things. | 3 The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies. | 4 They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear, | 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; | 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, | 4 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears: | 4 Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear, | 5 So that it does not hear the voice of charmers, Or a skillful caster of spells. | 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. | 5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely. | 5 Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely. | 5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 6 O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth; Break out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD. | 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. | 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah. | 6 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions. | 6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah. | 7 Let them flow away like water that runs off; When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts. | 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. | 7 Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off. | 7 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened. | 7 They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off. | 8 Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along, Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun. | 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. | 8 Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun. | 8 Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun. | 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 can feel the fire of thorns He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike. | 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. | 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike. | 9 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath. | 9 Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away. | 10 The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. | 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. | 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; | 10 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner. | 10 The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 11 And men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; Surely there is a God who judges on earth!" | 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. | 11 So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. | 11 And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth. | 11 And man saith: 'Surely fruit is for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!' |
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