Psalms 58
1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation, speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly?
2 No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops her ear,
Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
5 which hearkens not to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely.
Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
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,
Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.
8 as a snail which melts and passes away, as the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.
Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde 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 righteous shall reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.
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 men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.
