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?
When you mighty men speak, you never say what is right; you never decide things about people justly [RHQ]!
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong, and you commit violent crimes in this land [of Israel].
3 The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born [DOU].
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
God, show in the heavens how great you are! And show your glory to people all over the earth! What wicked people say [injures people like] the venom of a snake [MET]; They refuse to listen to good advice, [as though they were] cobras that were deaf [MET]!
5 Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely.
As a result, [like a snake that does not respond when] a charmer plays a flute or when someone sings magic songs, [they do not pay attention when others rebuke them].
6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
God, as for these enemies who [want to attack me like] young lions, break their teeth!
7 Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:
Cause them to disappear like water disappears [in dry ground]! Cause the arrows that they shoot to have no (heads/sharp points)!
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.
Cause them to become like snails that disappear in the slime; cause them to be like babies that are born dead!
9 Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, — they shall be whirled away.
Get rid of them [as fast as] thornbushes are blown away [after they are cut] (OR, [as fast as] a fire heats a pot over burning thorns).
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:
Righteous people will rejoice when they see wicked people being punished as they deserve; they will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.
11 And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
[Then] people will say, “It is true that there is a reward for righteous people; and there is indeed a God who judges people justly here on the earth!”
