Psalms 58
1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?
To the Overseer. — 'Destroy not.' — A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?
2 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear;
Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
5 Which will not listen to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
7 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.
They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
8 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.
As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God that judges in the earth.
And man saith: 'Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'
