1   
Doe yee indeed speake righteousnesse, O congregation? doe ye iudge vprightly, O ye sonnes of men?

2   
Yea, in heart you worke wickednesse; you waigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

3   
The wicked are estranged from the wombe, they goe astray ^note as soone as they be borne, speaking lies.

4   
Their poison is ^note like the poyson of a serpent; they are like the deafe ^note adder that stoppeth her eare:

5   
Which will not hearken to the voyce of charmers, ^note charming neuer so wisely.

6   
Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouth: breake out the great teeth of the young lyons, O Lord.

7   
Let them melt away as waters, which runne continually: When he bendeth his bow to shoote his arrowes, let them be as cut in pieces.

8   
As a snaile which melteth, let euery one of them passe away: like the vntimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sunne.

9   
Before your pots can feele the thornes, he shall take them away as with a whirlewind, ^note both liuing, and in his wrath.

10   
The righteous shall reioyce when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.

11   
So that a man shall say, Uerily there is ^note a reward for the righteous: verily hee is a God that iudgeth in the earth. 537

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