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58:1  Justice? You high and mighty politicians don’t even know the meaning of the word! Fairness? Which of you has any left? Not one! All your dealings are crooked: you give “justice” in exchange for bribes.
58:2  Justice? You high and mighty politicians don’t even know the meaning of the word! Fairness? Which of you has any left? Not one! All your dealings are crooked: you give “justice” in exchange for bribes.
58:3  These men are born sinners, lying from their earliest words!
58:4  They are poisonous as deadly snakes, cobras that close their ears to the most expert of charmers.
58:5  They are poisonous as deadly snakes, cobras that close their ears to the most expert of charmers.
58:6  O God, break off their fangs. Tear out the teeth of these young lions, Lord.
58:7  Let them disappear like water into thirsty ground. Make their weapons useless in their hands.
58:8  Let them be as snails that dissolve into slime and as those who die at birth, who never see the sun.
58:9  God will sweep away both old and young. He will destroy them more quickly than a cooking pot can feel the blazing fire of thorns beneath it.
58:10  The godly shall rejoice in the triumph of right; they shall walk the bloodstained fields of slaughtered, wicked men.
58:11  Then at last everyone will know that good is rewarded, and that there is a God who judges justly here on earth.