Psalms

58

The Message

1 Is this any way to run a country? Is there an honest politician in the house?

2 behind closed doors you make deals with demons.

3 their first words out of the womb are lies.

4 drips from their forked tongues—

5 decades of wax built up in their ears.

6 leave them toothless tigers.

7 all that's left, a damp stain in the sand. Let them be trampled grass worn smooth by the traffic.

8 be a miscarried fetus that never sees sunlight.

9 throw it out with the garbage!

10 when they see the wicked get their reward, Serve up their blood in goblets as they toast one another,

11 God's handing out trophies and tending the earth!"

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