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Psalms 57
Septuagint (LXX2012) 57 compared with World English Bible 58
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1(58) For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If you⌃ do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you⌃ judge rightly, you⌃ sons of men.
1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
2For you⌃ work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
2No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
3Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
3The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
4Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
4Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
5which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.
5which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.
6God has crushed their teethin their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
6Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
7They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
7Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
8They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
8Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
9Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
11And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.
11so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”