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.
Do all of you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do all of you judge uprightly, O all of you sons of men?
2 For, even in your heart, you work iniquity. Your hands construct injustice on the earth.
Yea, in heart all of you work wickedness; all of you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.
The wicked are cut off from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their fury is similar to that of a serpent; it is like a deaf asp, who even blocks her ears,
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear;
5 who will not listen to the voice of charmers, nor even to the enchanter who chants wisely.
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
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 great 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 waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 Like wax that flows, they will be carried away. Fire has fallen upon them, and they will not see the sun.
As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see 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 shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and 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 rejoice when he sees 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.”
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judges in the earth.
