{Psa 35-41, 53, 55, 58 ^**}

    ^58:1 Do you^* indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do you^* judge in uprightness, O you^* sons of men?

    ^58:2 No! You^* work wickedness in heart. You^* weigh out the violence of your^* hands in the earth.^58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go-astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

    ^58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops her ear, ^58:5 which listens not to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely.

    ^58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah. ^58:7 Let them melt away as water that runs with haste. When he aims his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off, ^58:8 as a snail which melts and passes away, as the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.

    ^58:9 Before your^* pots can feel the thorns, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

    ^58:10 A righteous man will rejoice because he sees the vengeance. He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, ^58:11 so that men will say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous man. Truly there is a God who judges in the earth.