Psalms 58
1 To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation, speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly?
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 Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
For ye work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
3 The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
4 Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
5 Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.
6 Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
7 Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.
They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
8 Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.
They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
9 As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.
Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
10 The righteous shall reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.
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 men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in 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.
