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.
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
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 serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5 Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Yhwh.
7 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and 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 seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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 a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
