Psalms 58
1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David. Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O 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 your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on 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; the liars go astray from birth.
The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
5 refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.
Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
6 O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
7 May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.
Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.
8 Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see 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 burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
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 The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their 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 Then men will say, “There is surely a reward for the righteous! There is surely a God who judges the earth!”
And men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.
