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?
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.
2 Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
3 The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
4 Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth 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 the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
6 Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders 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 come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
8 Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.
Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall 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 thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, 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 just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: 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 man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.
