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?
To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam. Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?
2 Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
4 Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
5 Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely.
6 Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
7 Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.
Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:
8 Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.
Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see 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 pots feel the thorns, green or burning, — they shall be whirled away.
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 seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:
11 And men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.
And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
