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.

For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If ye do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men.

2 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

For ye work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.

3 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.

4 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:

Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

5 Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.

which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.

6 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.

God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.

7 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.

8 Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

9 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.

10 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

11 And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.

And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.