Psalms 58

1 [For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David.] Do you rulers indeed speak righteousness? Do you judge blamelessly, you descendants of Adam?

To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation, speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly?

2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.

3 The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.

4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; like a deaf viper that stops its ear,

Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.

5 which doesn't listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.

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

Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.

7 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.

8 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.

9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde 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 reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.

11 so that men shall say, "Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth."

And men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.