Prayer for the Punishment of the Wicked.

For the choir director; set to [a]Al-tashheth. A [b]Mikhtam of David.

58 Do you indeed [c]speak righteousness, O [d]gods?
Do you (A)judge [e]uprightly, O sons of men?
No, in heart you (B)work unrighteousness;
On earth you (C)weigh out the violence of your hands.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 58:1 Lit Do Not Destroy
  2. Psalm 58:1 Possibly Epigrammatic Poem or Atonement Psalm
  3. Psalm 58:1 Another reading is speak righteousness in silence
  4. Psalm 58:1 Or mighty ones or judges
  5. Psalm 58:1 Or uprightly the sons of men

126 It is time for the Lord to (A)act,
For they have broken Your law.

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12 For our (A)transgressions are multiplied before You,
And our (B)sins [a]testify against us;
For our transgressions are with us,
And [b]we know our iniquities:
13 Transgressing and (C)denying the Lord,
And turning away from our God,
Speaking (D)oppression and revolt,
Conceiving in and (E)uttering from the heart lying words.
14 (F)Justice is turned back,
And (G)righteousness stands far away;
For truth has stumbled in the street,
And uprightness cannot enter.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 59:12 Lit answer
  2. Isaiah 59:12 Lit our iniquities we know them