Psalms 58
1 For the Leader; Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David; Michtam. Do ye indeed speak as a righteous company? Do ye judge with equity the sons of men?
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, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out in the earth the violence of your hands.
For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; the speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
4 Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;
Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, or of the most cunning binder of spells.
Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the cheek-teeth of the young 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 away as water that runneth apace; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
8 Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.
Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.
Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his feet 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 a reward for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth 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.
