Psalms 58
1 Do all of you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do all of you judge uprightly, O all of you sons of men?
When you mighty men speak, you never say what is right; you never decide things about people justly [RHQ]!
2 Yea, in heart all of you work wickedness; all of you weigh the violence of your hands in 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 cut off from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born [DOU].
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear;
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 will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
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 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
God, as for these enemies who [want to attack me like] young lions, break their teeth!
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.
Cause them to disappear like water disappears [in dry ground]! Cause the arrows that they shoot to have no (heads/sharp points)!
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.
Cause them to become like snails that disappear in the slime; cause them to be like babies that are born dead!
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and 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 rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet 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 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judges 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!”
