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.
Je, ninyi watawala mnaongea haki? Mnahukumu kwa haki, ninyi watu?
2 For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
Hapana, mnafanya uovu mioyoni mwenu; munaeneza vurugu nchi yote kwa mikono yenu.
3 Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
Waovu huenenda katika upotovu hata walipokuwa tumboni; wao wanaenenda katika upotovu tangu kuzaliwa, wakiongea uongo.
4 Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
Sumu yao ni kama sumu ya nyoka; wako kama fira kiziwi azibaye masikio yake,
5 which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skilfully by the wise.
ambaye hasikilizi sauti ya waganga, haijalishi ustadi walio nao.
6 God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
Vunja meno yao midomoni mwao, Mungu; uyatoe meno ya mwana simba, Yahwe.
7 They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
Wayeyuke kama maporomoko ya maji; wafyatuapo mishale yao, iwe kama haina ncha.
8 They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
Wawe kama konokono ambaye huyeyuka na kutoweka, kama mtoto aliye zaliwa kabla ya wakati ambaye hakuona jua.
9 Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
Kabla ya vyungu vyenu kupata joto la kuungua kwa miiba, yeye ataviondosha kwa upepo mkali, miiba ya kijani yote na ile inayoungua.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
Mwenye haki atafurahia atakapoona kisasi cha Mungu; ataiosha miguu yake kwenye damu ya waovu,
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.
hivyo watu watasema, “Hakika kuna tuzo kwa ajili ya mtu wenye haki; hakika kuna Mungu ahukumuye ulimwengu.”
