Psalms 58

1 Do all of you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do all of you judge uprightly, O all of you sons of men?

For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If ye do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men.

2 Yea, in heart all of you work wickedness; all of you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

For ye work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.

3 The wicked are cut off from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.

4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear;

Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.

6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.

7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.

8 As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judges in the earth.

And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.