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Psalms
A collection of songs and prayers expressing a wide range of emotions and thoughts on faith.
Chapter 58
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1
KJV:
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Geneva:
To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of Dauid on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation, speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly?
2
KJV:
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Geneva:
Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
3
KJV:
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Geneva:
The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
4
KJV:
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Geneva:
Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
5
KJV:
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Geneva:
Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
6
KJV:
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
Geneva:
Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lorde.
7
KJV:
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
Geneva:
Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.
8
KJV:
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Geneva:
Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.
9
KJV:
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Geneva:
As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.
10
KJV:
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Geneva:
The righteous shall reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.
11
KJV:
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Geneva:
And men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.
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