1To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation, speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly?

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Psalms 57:1, Psalms 57:1, Deuteronomy 16:18, Deuteronomy 16:19, Psalms 72:1

2Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.

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Psalms 94:20, Psalms 94:20, Isaiah 10:1, Isaiah 10:1, Micah 3:1

3The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.

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Psalms 51:5, Psalms 51:5, Proverbs 22:15, Isaiah 48:8, Proverbs 22:15

4Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.

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Psalms 140:3, Psalms 140:3, Ecclesiastes 10:11, James 3:8, Ecclesiastes 10:11

5Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.

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Jeremiah 8:17, Jeremiah 8:17, Isaiah 19:3, Deuteronomy 18:11, Isaiah 19:3

6Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.

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Psalms 3:7, Psalms 3:7, Psalms 17:12, Micah 5:8, Job 4:10

7Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.

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Psalms 112:10, Joshua 7:5, Psalms 112:10, Joshua 7:5, Joshua 2:9

8Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.

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Job 3:16, Job 3:16, Ecclesiastes 6:3, Ecclesiastes 6:3, Psalms 37:35

9As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.

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Psalms 118:12, Proverbs 10:25, Psalms 118:12, Proverbs 10:25, Ecclesiastes 7:6

10The righteous shall reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.

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Psalms 68:23, Psalms 68:23, Psalms 91:8, Psalms 91:8, Psalms 64:10

11And men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.

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Psalms 67:4, Psalms 67:4, Psalms 64:9, Psalms 64:9, Isaiah 3:10