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Psalms58
Psalm 58 begins with David confronting unjust rulers or judges, accusing them of speaking unrighteously and working wickedness in their hearts. He describes the wicked as inherently depraved, like venomous serpents deaf to wisdom. The psalmist then prays for God's swift and destructive judgment upon them, asking for their power to be broken and their existence to vanish. The psalm concludes with the assurance that the righteous will rejoice in God's vengeance, affirming His role as a just judge on earth.
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The Corruption of Earthly Judges
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To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation, speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly?
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Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
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The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
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Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
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Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
A Prayer for the Destruction of the Wicked
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Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
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Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.
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Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.
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As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.
The Vindication of God's Righteous Judgment
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The righteous shall reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.
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And men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.
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