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?
Kwa mwimbishaji. Mtindo wa “Usiharibu!” Utenzi wa Daudi. Enyi watawala, je, kweli mwanena kwa haki? Je, mnahukumu kwa unyofu miongoni mwa watu?
2 Even in [your] heart ye work injustice: on the earth do ye weigh out the violence of your hands.
La, mioyoni mwenu mnatunga udhalimu, na mikono yenu hupima jeuri duniani.
3 The wicked are estranged [from goodness] from the womb: those who speak lies go astray from their very birth.
Waovu ni wapotovu tangu kuzaliwa kwao, toka tumboni mwa mama zao ni wakaidi na husema uongo.
4 They have poison like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Sumu yao ni kama sumu ya nyoka, kama ile ya fira ambaye ameziba masikio yake,
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of conjurers, yea, that of the wisest of all charmers.
ambaye hatasikia sauti ya kutumbuiza ya mwaguzi, hata kama mganga angecheza kwa ustadi kiasi gani.
6 O God, break out their teeth in their mouth: the jaw-teeth of the young lions tear thou out, O Lord.
Ee Mungu, yavunje meno katika vinywa vyao; Ee Bwana, vunja meno makali ya hao simba!
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.
Na watoweke kama maji yapitayo kwa kasi, wavutapo pinde zao, mishale yao na iwe butu.
8 As a snail which melteth, let him pass away; like the untimely birth of a woman which hath not seen the sun.
Kama konokono ayeyukavyo akitembea, kama mtoto aliyezaliwa akiwa mfu, wasilione jua.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, will he take them away with a whirlwind, both the green and the burning.
Kabla vyungu vyenu havijapata moto wa kuni za miiba, zikiwa mbichi au kavu, waovu watakuwa wamefagiliwa mbali.
10 The righteous will rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he will bathe his steps in the blood of the wicked.
Wenye haki watafurahi waonapo wakilipizwa kisasi, watakapochovya nyayo zao katika damu ya waovu.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily fruit will come for the righteous: verily there is a God that judgeth on the earth.
Ndipo wanadamu watasema, “Hakika utulivu wa wenye haki bado una thawabu, hakika kuna Mungu ahukumuye dunia.”
