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.
“For the leader of the music. To the tune of “Do not destroy.” A psalm of David.” Do ye, indeed, administer justice faithfully, ye mighty ones? Do ye judge with uprightness, ye sons of men?
2 For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
Nay, in your hearts ye contrive iniquity; Your hands weigh out violence in the land!
3 Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
The wicked are estranged, from their very birth; The liars go astray as soon as they are born.
4 Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
They have poison, like the poison of a serpent; Like the deaf adder's, which stoppeth her ear;
5 which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skilfully by the wise.
Which listeneth not to the voice of the charmer, And of the sorcerer, skilful in incantations.
6 God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
Break their teeth, O God! in their mouths! Break out the great teeth of the lions, O LORD!
7 They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
May they melt like waters, which flow away; May their arrows, when they aim them, be as if cut in pieces!
8 They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
May they be like the snail, which melteth away as it goeth; Like the abortion of a woman, that seeth not the sun!
9 Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
Before your pots feel the heat of the thorns, Whether fresh, or burning, may they be blown away!
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 righteous shall rejoice, when he seeth such vengeance; He shall bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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.
Then shall men say, “Truly there is a reward for the righteous! Truly there is a God who is judge upon the earth!”
