Psalms 58

1 For the Leader; Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David; Michtam. Do ye indeed speak as a righteous company? Do ye judge with equity the 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 ye work wickedness; ye weigh out in the earth the violence of your hands.

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

3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; the speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.

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

4 Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;

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

5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, or of the most cunning binder of spells.

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 cheek-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 water that runneth apace; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

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

8 Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen 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 will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.

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 seeth 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 And men shall say: 'Verily there is a reward for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth 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.