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.
For the Leader; Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David; Michtam. Do ye indeed speak as a righteous company? Do ye judge with equity the sons of men?
2 For, even in your heart, you work iniquity. Your hands construct injustice on the earth.
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out in the earth the violence of your hands.
3 Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.
4 Their fury is similar to that of a serpent; it is like a deaf asp, who even blocks her ears,
Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;
5 who will not listen to the voice of charmers, nor even to the enchanter who chants wisely.
Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, or of the most cunning binder of spells.
6 God will crush their teeth within their own mouth. The Lord will break the molars of the lions.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the cheek-teeth of the young 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 away as water that runneth apace; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
8 Like wax that flows, they will be carried away. Fire has fallen upon them, and they will not see the sun.
Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.
9 Before your thorns could know the brier, he consumes them alive, as if in rage.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.
10 The just one will rejoice when he sees vindication. He will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his feet 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 a reward for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.'
