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Book II: The Indictment of the Silent Judges and the Snail of Melt
To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Miktam of Dawid. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
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Tahiliym 58
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Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
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The Anatomy of the Deaf Adder
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
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Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
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The Judicial Imprecation: The Breaking of the Teeth
Break their teeth, O Alahiym, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
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As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
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Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
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The Reward of the Righteous
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a Alahiym that judgeth in the earth.