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 Overseer. — 'Destroy not.' — A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?
2 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
3 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
4 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
5 Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
6 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
7 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
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 that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, 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 pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
10 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth 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.
And man saith: 'Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'
