Psalms 58
1 For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If you do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you judge rightly, you 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 For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
3 Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
4 Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
5 which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skilfully by the wise.
Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
6 God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
7 They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
8 They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have 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 thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11 And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them 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.
