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?
To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation, speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly?
2 Even in [your] heart ye work injustice: on the earth do ye weigh out the violence of your hands.
Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged [from goodness] from the womb: those who speak lies go astray from their very birth.
The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
4 They have poison like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of conjurers, yea, that of the wisest of all charmers.
Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
6 O God, break out their teeth in their mouth: the jaw-teeth of the young lions tear thou out, O Lord.
Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
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.
Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.
8 As a snail which melteth, let him pass away; like the untimely birth of a woman which hath not seen the sun.
Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, will he take them away with a whirlwind, both the green and the burning.
As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde 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 reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.
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 men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.
