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O God, break off their fangs. Tear out the teeth of these young lions, Lord. Let them disappear like water into thirsty ground. Make their weapons useless in their hands.[a] Let them be as snails that dissolve into slime and as those who die at birth, who never see the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 58:7 Make their weapons useless in their hands, or “Let them be trodden down and wither like grass.”

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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