58	Psalm 58	LM
	(David’s indictment of godless rulers constitutes a prayer for lands closed to the Gospel)
	RULERS who make themselves as gods,     Trample on righteousness and law; Scheme and encourage things unjust,     Authorise violence, hate and war . . .
2	Such do oppose the God of Heaven;     Poison of falsehood is their way; Doctrines of demons they impose;     Striving against the Gospel’s ray.
3	Silence them, Lord, remove their power;     May they go melting from the scene; Their weapons take, their influence end,     As if their birth had never been.
4	Thus, in an instant may they go;     Sweep them away by strength divine; So shall Thy people all rejoice,     Responsive to the gracious sign.
5	Cause Thou our feet to enter yet     Those darkened realms, so long deprived Of the glad tidings freely spread—     There may a witness be revived.
6	Then shall the people hear Thy Word,     Sinners shall taste a second birth, Millions shall cry aloud and sing:     ‘God is the Judge of all the earth!’
	Evangelical Psalter
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