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Psalms 57
Septuagint (Brenton, 1851) 57 compared with King James Version 58
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2If ye do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men.
2Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
3For ye work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
3Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
4Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
4The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
5Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
5Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
6which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skilfully by the wise.
6Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
7God has crushed their teethin their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
7Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
8They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
8Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
9They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
9As 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.
10Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
10Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
11The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
12And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.
12So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.