Psalms 58
1 TO THE OVERSEER. “DO NOT DESTROY.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID. Is it true, O silent one, that you speak righteously? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
For the Leader; Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David; Michtam. Do ye indeed speak as a righteous company? Do ye judge with equity the sons of men?
2 Even in heart you work iniquities, In the land you ponder the violence of your hands.
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out in the earth the violence of your hands.
3 The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.
4 Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf cobra shutting its ear,
Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;
5 Which does not listen to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of most skillful charms.
Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, or of the most cunning binder of spells.
6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth, Break down the jaw-teeth of young lions, O YHWH.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the cheek-teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceeds as they cut themselves off.
Let them melt away as water that runneth apace; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
8 He goes on as a snail that melts, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.
9 Before your pots discern the bramble, As living, He whirls away in His burning anger.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.
10 The righteous rejoices that he has seen vengeance, He washes his steps in the blood of the wicked.
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 And man says: “Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!”
And men shall say: 'Verily there is a reward for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.'
