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Psalm 59:7

The Passion Translation

boiling over with rage, shouting out their curses, convinced that they’ll never get caught.

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Then they say to themselves, “The Lofty One is not watching while we do this. He doesn’t even care! We can get away with it!”

How dare the wicked think they’ll reject God and escape judgment. They say to themselves, “God won’t hold me accountable.”

His words were smooth and charming. Yet his heart was disloyal and full of hatred— his words soft as silk while all the time scheming my demise.

I am surrounded by these fierce and brutal men. They are like lions just wanting to tear me to shreds. Why must I continue to live among these seething terrorists, breathing out their angry threats and insults against me?

They tell their cohorts, “God will never know. See, he has no clue of what we’re doing.”

Listen to them bragging among themselves, big in their own eyes, all because of the crimes they’ve committed against your people! See how they’re crushing those who love you, God, cruelly oppressing those who belong to you.

Reckless words are like the thrusts of a sword, cutting remarks meant to stab and to hurt. But the words of the wise soothe and heal.

When wisdom speaks, understanding becomes attractive. But the words of the fool make their ignorance look laughable.

Lovers of God think before they speak, but the careless blurt out wicked words meant to cause harm.

“Have you heard that these people are saying, ‘Yahweh has forsaken Judah and Israel, whom he chose for himself’? They despise my people and no longer consider them as a nation.

They murmur and whisper against me all day long.

But you who are known as the Pharisees are rotten to the core like venomous snakes. How can your words be good if you are rotten within? For what has been stored up in your hearts will be heard in the overflow of your words!




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