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Ps 58 Baruch Ata YHVH, Elohey Yisrael, Avi. (Bless You, YHVH - Elohim of Israel, my Father)

I come before You, O El Ra’chum (Compassionate G-d), with sorrow in my heart. I know that I myself have been born in sin, and that I was estranged and went astray from the womb; that I, like all the sons of men, thought in my pride that I was speaking righteousness and judging uprightly; but, in truth, I was working wickedness and speaking lies in my heart, and weighing out violence from my hand on the earth. It was like the poison of a serpent. I was like a deaf cobra that stopped up its ears and could not heed the voice of a skilled charmer.

But You, YHVH - Yeshua’tee (my Salvation), have had compassion on me, and now I ask You to reach out also to others by Y’min’cha (Your Right Hand). But those who stand up and resist You and Your called-out ones break their teeth in their mouth, O Shofet Tzedek (Judge of Righteousness)! Break out the fangs of the young lions, El Shaddai (Almighty)! Let them flow away as waters which run continually; let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes, like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun. When they bend their bow, may their arrows be as if cut in pieces. In Your living and burning wrath, YHVH, take them away as with a whirlwind, even before their pots can feel the burning thorns.

However, when You wash Your feet in the blood of the wicked, Your righteous ones will see Your vengeance, and will rejoice, because then men shall say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely He is YHVH - Shofet Tzedek (Judge of Righteousness), who judges on the earth."