Psalms 58
1 “To the chief musician Al-tashcheth, by David, a Michtham.” Do you indeed, who are dumb, speak righteously? do ye judge in uprightness, O ye sons of men?
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.
2 Even in [your] heart ye work injustice: on the earth do ye weigh out the violence of your hands.
For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
3 The wicked are estranged [from goodness] from the womb: those who speak lies go astray from their very birth.
Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
4 They have poison like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of conjurers, yea, that of the wisest of all charmers.
which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skilfully by the wise.
6 O God, break out their teeth in their mouth: the jaw-teeth of the young lions tear thou out, O Lord.
God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
7 Let them melt away as water [which] runneth off: when each one bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as if cut in pieces.
They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
8 As a snail which melteth, let him pass away; like the untimely birth of a woman which hath not seen the sun.
They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, will he take them away with a whirlwind, both the green and the burning.
Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
10 The righteous will rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he will bathe his steps in the blood of the wicked.
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily fruit will come for the righteous: verily there is a God that judgeth on the earth.
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.
