Psalms 58
1 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.
To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?
2 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
3 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
4 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;
5 Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
Who will not be moved by the voice of the wonder-worker, however great are his powers.
6 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.
7 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.
8 Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
9 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
10 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer.
11 And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.
So that men will say, Truly there is a reward for righteousness; truly there is a God who is judge on the earth.
