Psalms 58
1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title. If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.
2 No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops her ear,
Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
5 which hearkens not to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely.
Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders 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 shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be 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 melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall 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 swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
10 A righteous man shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall 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 shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.
