Psalms 58
1 To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
For the leader. Al tashheth. Of David. A michtam. Do you speak what is right, you gods? With equity judge you your people?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
In the land you practise iniquity – all of you; violence do you dispense with your hands.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
The wicked go astray from the womb liars take the wrong path from their birth.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Venom have they like the venom of snakes, they are like the deaf adder that stops her ears,
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
and refuses to listen to the voice of the charmer, or binder of spells, no matter how cunning.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
O God, break to pieces the teeth in their mouth, tear out the great teeth of the young lions, Lord.
7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
May they melt away like running water! Like tender grass, cut down may they be!
8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Like the snail that dissolves on its crawling path, like the birth untimely which sees not the sunlight.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Faster than a thorn-fire heats your pots, he will come with his tempest and sweep them away.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
The sight of such vengeance will gladden the righteous; their feet they will wash in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
People will say, “Yes, the just are rewarded: yes, on the earth is a God who is Judge.”
