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?

in finem ne disperdas David in tituli inscriptione si vere utique iustitiam loquimini recta iudicate filii hominum

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

etenim in corde iniquitates operamini in terra iniustitiam manus vestrae concinnant

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

alienati sunt peccatores a vulva erraverunt ab utero locuti sunt falsa

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

furor illis secundum similitudinem serpentis sicut aspidis surdae et obturantis aures suas

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

quae non exaudiet vocem incantantium et venefici incantantis sapienter

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

Deus conteret dentes eorum in ore ipsorum molas leonum confringet Dominus

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

ad nihilum devenient tamquam aqua decurrens intendit arcum suum donec infirmentur

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.

sicut cera quae fluit auferentur supercecidit ignis et non viderunt solem

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

priusquam intellegerent spinae vestrae ramnum sicut viventes sicut in ira absorbet vos

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

laetabitur iustus cum viderit vindictam manus suas lavabit in sanguine peccatoris

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

et dicet homo si utique est fructus iusto utique est Deus iudicans eos in terra