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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.

No, in your heart you devise injustice,(A)
    and your hands mete out violence on the earth.(B)

Even from birth the wicked go astray;
    from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.
Their venom is like the venom of a snake,(C)
    like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,

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