Psalms 58

1 To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam. Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?

達味金詩，交與樂官。調寄「莫要毀壞」。 判官們！你們是否真正出言公平？世人們！你們是否照理審斷案情？

2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

可惜你們一心只想為非作惡，在地上你們的雙手只行宰割。

3 The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

作惡者一離母胎，即背離正路；說謊者一出母腹，即走入歧途。

4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;

他們滿懷的毒素有如蛇毒；他們又像塞住耳朵的聾蝮，

5 Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely.

不聽巫士的言語，不隨靈妙的妖術。

6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

天主，求你把他們口中的牙齒搗爛，上主，求你把少壯獅子的牙床打斷。

7 Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:

他們有如奔湍的急水流去，他們有如被踏的青草枯萎；

8 Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.

他們有如蝸牛爬過溶化消失，又如流產的胎兒不得親見天日！

9 Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, — they shall be whirled away.

他們的鍋在未覺到荊火以前，願狂怒的烈風將他們全部吹散！

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:

義人看見大仇己報時，必然喜樂，他要在惡人的血中洗自己的腳。

11 And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.

如此，眾人都說：「義人果然獲得了好的報酬，世上確有執行審判的天主！