Psalms 58
1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title. If, truly and certainly, you speak justice, then judge what is right, you sons of men.
2 No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
For, even in your heart, you work iniquity. Your hands construct injustice on the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops her ear,
Their fury is similar to that of a serpent; it is like a deaf asp, who even blocks her ears,
5 which hearkens not to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely.
who will not listen to the voice of charmers, nor even to the enchanter who chants wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
God will crush their teeth within their own mouth. The Lord will break the molars of the lions.
7 Let them melt away as water that runs with haste. When he aims his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off,
They will come to nothing, like water flowing away. He has aimed his bow, while they are being weakened.
8 as a snail which melts and passes away, as the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.
Like wax that flows, they will be carried away. Fire has fallen upon them, and they will not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
Before your thorns could know the brier, he consumes them alive, as if in rage.
10 A righteous man shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
The just one will rejoice when he sees vindication. He will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11 so that men shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous man. Truly there is a God who judges in the earth.
And man will say, “If the just one is fruitful, then, truly, there is a God judging them on earth.”
