Psalms 58
1 Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title. If, truly and certainly, you speak justice, then judge what is right, you 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 For, even in your heart, you work iniquity. Your hands construct injustice on the earth.
Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
3 Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.
The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
4 Their fury is similar to that of a serpent; it is like a deaf asp, who even blocks her ears,
Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
5 who will not listen to the voice of charmers, nor even to the enchanter who chants wisely.
Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
6 God will crush their teeth within their own mouth. The Lord will break the molars of the lions.
Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
7 They will come to nothing, like water flowing away. He has aimed his bow, while they are being weakened.
Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.
8 Like wax that flows, they will be carried away. Fire has fallen upon them, and they will not 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 thorns could know the brier, he consumes them alive, as if in rage.
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 just one will rejoice when he sees vindication. He will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
The righteous shall reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.
11 And man will say, “If the just one is fruitful, then, truly, there is a God judging them on earth.”
And men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.
