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O Elohim, knock the teeth out of their mouths.
    Break the young lions’ teeth, O Yahweh.
Let them disappear like water that drains away.
    When they aim their bows, let their arrows miss the target.[a]
Let them become like a snail that leaves behind a slimy trail
    or like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 58:7 Hebrew meaning of this sentence uncertain.

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