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O you rulers,[a] do you render justice?
    Do you judge your people impartially?
No! You devise wickedness in your hearts,[b]
    and your hands bring about violence on the earth.
The wicked have gone astray right from the womb;
    from birth these liars have taken the wrong path.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 58:2 Rulers: literally, “gods”: see introduction.
  2. Psalm 58:3 Hearts: see note on Ps 4:8.
  3. Psalm 58:4 The evil ways of the wicked (see Ps 10) are theirs from birth.