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Psalms 58 (MSG)

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¹ A David psalm. Is this any way to run a country? Is there an honest politician in the house? ² Behind the scenes you brew cauldrons of evil, behind closed doors you make deals with demons. ³ The wicked crawl from the wrong side of the cradle; their first words out of the womb are lies. ⁴ Poison, lethal rattlesnake poison, drips from their forked tongues-- ⁵ Deaf to threats, deaf to charm, decades of wax built up in their ears. ⁶ God, smash their teeth to bits, leave them toothless tigers. ⁷ Let their lives be buckets of water spilled, all that's left, a damp stain in the sand. Let them be trampled grass worn smooth by the traffic. ⁸ Let them dissolve into snail slime, be a miscarried fetus that never sees sunlight. ⁹ Before what they cook up is half-done, God, throw it out with the garbage! ¹⁰ The righteous will call up their friends when they see the wicked get their reward, Serve up their blood in goblets as they toast one another, ¹¹ Everyone cheering, "It's worth it to play by the rules! God's handing out trophies and tending the earth!" A David psalm, when Saul set a watch on David's house in order to kill him.