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 Al-tashcheth, by David, a Michtham.” Do you indeed, who are dumb, speak righteously? do ye judge in uprightness, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
Even in [your] heart ye work injustice: on the earth do ye weigh out the violence of your hands.
3 The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
The wicked are estranged [from goodness] from the womb: those who speak lies go astray from their very birth.
4 Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
They have poison like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5 Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
Which will not hearken to the voice of conjurers, yea, that of the wisest of all charmers.
6 Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
O God, break out their teeth in their mouth: the jaw-teeth of the young lions tear thou out, 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 water [which] runneth off: when each one bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as if 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 melteth, let him pass away; like the untimely birth of a woman which hath 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 pots can feel the thorns, will he take them away with a whirlwind, both the green and the burning.
10 The righteous shall reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.
The righteous will rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he will bathe his steps 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, Verily fruit will come for the righteous: verily there is a God that judgeth on the earth.
