Psalms 58
1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
To the Overseer. — 'Destroy not.' — A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?
2 No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops her ear,
Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
5 which hearkens not to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely.
Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
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 are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
8 as a snail which melts and passes away, as the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.
As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have 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 pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth 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 rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth 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 man saith: 'Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'
