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?
When you mighty men speak, you never say what is right; you never decide things about people justly [RHQ]!
2 Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong, and you commit violent crimes in this land [of Israel].
3 The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born [DOU].
4 Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
God, show in the heavens how great you are! And show your glory to people all over the earth! What wicked people say [injures people like] the venom of a snake [MET]; They refuse to listen to good advice, [as though they were] cobras that were deaf [MET]!
5 Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
As a result, [like a snake that does not respond when] a charmer plays a flute or when someone sings magic songs, [they do not pay attention when others rebuke them].
6 Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
God, as for these enemies who [want to attack me like] young lions, break their teeth!
7 Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.
Cause them to disappear like water disappears [in dry ground]! Cause the arrows that they shoot to have no (heads/sharp points)!
8 Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.
Cause them to become like snails that disappear in the slime; cause them to be like babies that are born dead!
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.
Get rid of them [as fast as] thornbushes are blown away [after they are cut] (OR, [as fast as] a fire heats a pot over burning thorns).
10 The righteous shall reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.
Righteous people will rejoice when they see wicked people being punished as they deserve; they will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.
11 And men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.
[Then] people will say, “It is true that there is a reward for righteous people; and there is indeed a God who judges people justly here on the earth!”
