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Break off their fangs, O God!
    Smash the jaws of these lions, O Lord!
May they disappear like water into thirsty ground.
    Make their weapons useless in their hands.[a]
May they be like snails that dissolve into slime,
    like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. 58:7 Or Let them be trodden down and wither like grass. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

Break the teeth in their mouths, O God;(A)
    Lord, tear out the fangs of those lions!(B)
Let them vanish like water that flows away;(C)
    when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall short.(D)
May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along,(E)
    like a stillborn child(F) that never sees the sun.

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