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Psalms Chapter: 58

1: 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!"

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