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Psalms 58

1Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness?

2Nay, in heart ye work wickedness;

3The wicked are estranged from the womb:

4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:

5Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers,

6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:

7Let them melt away as water that runneth apace:

8Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away,

9Before your pots can feel the thorns,

10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:

11So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:

American Standard Version · 1901 · Public Domain

The 1901 American revision — literal, formal, the "Rock of Biblical Honesty."