1 GLT Do you indeed rulers speak righteousness you silent ones? Do you judge uprightly, you people? BSB BSB: For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David. Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
2 GLT No, you commit wickedness in your heart; you distribute violence throughout the land with your hands. BSB BSB: No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
3 GLT The wicked go astray even when they are in the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies. BSB BSB: The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
4 GLT Their poison is like a snake’ s poison; they are like a deaf adder that stops up its ears, BSB BSB: Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
5 GLT that pays no attention to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful they are. BSB BSB: refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.
6 GLT Break their teeth in their mouths, God; break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh. BSB BSB: O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
7 GLT Let them melt away as water that runs off; when they shoot their arrows, let them be as though they had no points. BSB BSB: May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.
8 GLT Let them be like a snail that melts and passes away, like the untimely- born child of a woman that never sees the sunlight. BSB BSB: Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
9 GLT Before your pots can feel the thorn’ s burning heat, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green thorns and the burning thorns alike. BSB BSB: Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
10 GLT The righteous will rejoice when he sees God’ s vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, BSB BSB: The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 GLT so that men will say,“Truly, there is a reward for the righteous person; truly there is a God who judges the earth.” BSB BSB: Then men will say, “There is surely a reward for the righteous! There is surely a God who judges the earth!”
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