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Make them vanish like water flowing away;(A)
    trodden down, let them wither like grass.(B)
Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away,[a]
    like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.(C)
10 Suddenly, like brambles or thistles,
    have the whirlwind snatch them away.(D)

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  1. 58:9 A snail that oozes away: empty shells suggested to ancients that snails melted away as they left a slimy trail.

May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along,(A)
    like a stillborn child(B) that never sees the sun.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns(C)
    whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.[a](D)
10 The righteous will be glad(E) when they are avenged,(F)
    when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.(G)

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  1. Psalm 58:9 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.