Psalms 58
1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
To the Chief Musician. "Do not Destroy." A precious Psalm, of David. Are ye, indeed, silent [when] righteousness, ye should speak? When, with equity, ye should judge, O ye sons of men?
2 No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Aye! ye all do work, perversity, —Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence!
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops her ear,
Their poison, is like unto the poison of a serpent, Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth his ear;
5 which hearkens not to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely.
That will not hearken to the voice of whisperers, Though the wise one try to bind him with spells.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
O God! break away their teeth in their mouth, The biters of the young lions, knock thou out, O Yahweh!
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 such men flow away like waters that disperse themselves: He prepareth his arrow, Like [grass] let them be cut down:
8 as a snail which melts and passes away, as the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.
Like a snail, which melteth away as it goeth, An untimely birth of a woman, which hath not seen 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 kettles can perceive the [kindled] bramble, Be he green or be he withered, he shall be swept away.
10 A righteous man shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
The righteous man will rejoice when he hath seen an avenging, His feet, will he bathe in the blood of the lawless one: —
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.
So that a son of earth may say—Surely there is fruit for the righteous man! Surely there are gods who judge in the earth!
