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?
Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?
2 Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh 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 are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be 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 that stops her ear;
5 Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
Which will not listen to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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 which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.
As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may 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 can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and 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: he shall wash his feet 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.
So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God that judges in the earth.
