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?
Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title. If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
3 The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
5 Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely.
Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
7 Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:
They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
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.
Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
9 Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, — they shall be whirled away.
Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:
The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11 And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.
