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.

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

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

etenim in corde iniquitates operamini in terra iniustitiam manus vestrae concinnant

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

alienati sunt peccatores a vulva erraverunt ab utero locuti sunt falsa

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

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

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

quae non exaudiet vocem incantantium et venefici incantantis sapienter

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

Deus conteret dentes eorum in ore ipsorum molas leonum confringet Dominus

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

ad nihilum devenient tamquam aqua decurrens intendit arcum suum donec infirmentur

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

sicut cera quae fluit auferentur supercecidit ignis et non viderunt solem

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

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

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

laetabitur iustus cum viderit vindictam manus suas lavabit in sanguine peccatoris

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

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