Psalms 58
1 For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If you do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you judge rightly, you sons of men.
To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?
2 For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
3 Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
4 Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;
5 which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.
Who will not be moved by the voice of the wonder-worker, however great are his powers.
6 God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.
7 They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.
8 They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
9 Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer.
11 And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.
So that men will say, Truly there is a reward for righteousness; truly there is a God who is judge on the earth.
