Psalm 58:1

Verse 1 of 11. The 58th of 150 chapters in Psalms, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.