Psalms 58

1 When you mighty men speak, you never say what is right; you never decide things about people justly [RHQ]!

“To the chief musician Al-tashcheth, by David, a Michtham.” Do you indeed, who are dumb, speak righteously? do ye judge in uprightness, O ye sons of men?

2 No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong, and you commit violent crimes in this land [of Israel].

Even in [your] heart ye work injustice: on the earth do ye weigh out the violence of your hands.

3 Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born [DOU].

The wicked are estranged [from goodness] from the womb: those who speak lies go astray from their very birth.

4 God, show in the heavens how great you are! And show your glory to people all over the earth! What wicked people say [injures people like] the venom of a snake [MET]; They refuse to listen to good advice, [as though they were] cobras that were deaf [MET]!

They have poison like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

5 As a result, [like a snake that does not respond when] a charmer plays a flute or when someone sings magic songs, [they do not pay attention when others rebuke them].

Which will not hearken to the voice of conjurers, yea, that of the wisest of all charmers.

6 God, as for these enemies who [want to attack me like] young lions, break their teeth!

O God, break out their teeth in their mouth: the jaw-teeth of the young lions tear thou out, O Lord.

7 Cause them to disappear like water disappears [in dry ground]! Cause the arrows that they shoot to have no (heads/sharp points)!

Let them melt away as water [which] runneth off: when each one bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as if cut in pieces.

8 Cause them to become like snails that disappear in the slime; cause them to be like babies that are born dead!

As a snail which melteth, let him pass away; like the untimely birth of a woman which hath not seen the sun.

9 Get rid of them [as fast as] thornbushes are blown away [after they are cut] (OR, [as fast as] a fire heats a pot over burning thorns).

Before your pots can feel the thorns, will he take them away with a whirlwind, both the green and the burning.

10 Righteous people will rejoice when they see wicked people being punished as they deserve; they will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.

The righteous will rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he will bathe his steps in the blood of the wicked.

11 [Then] people will say, “It is true that there is a reward for righteous people; and there is indeed a God who judges people justly here on the earth!”

So that a man shall say, Verily fruit will come for the righteous: verily there is a God that judgeth on the earth.