Psalms 58
1 For the leader. Al tashheth. Of David. A michtam. Do you speak what is right, you gods? With equity judge you your people?
When you mighty men speak, you never say what is right; you never decide things about people justly [RHQ]!
2 In the land you practise iniquity – all of you; violence do you dispense with your hands.
No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong, and you commit violent crimes in this land [of Israel].
3 The wicked go astray from the womb liars take the wrong path from their birth.
Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born [DOU].
4 Venom have they like the venom of snakes, they are like the deaf adder that stops her ears,
God, show in the heavens how great you are! And show your glory to people all over the earth! What wicked people say [injures people like] the venom of a snake [MET]; They refuse to listen to good advice, [as though they were] cobras that were deaf [MET]!
5 and refuses to listen to the voice of the charmer, or binder of spells, no matter how cunning.
As a result, [like a snake that does not respond when] a charmer plays a flute or when someone sings magic songs, [they do not pay attention when others rebuke them].
6 O God, break to pieces the teeth in their mouth, tear out the great teeth of the young lions, Lord.
God, as for these enemies who [want to attack me like] young lions, break their teeth!
7 May they melt away like running water! Like tender grass, cut down may they be!
Cause them to disappear like water disappears [in dry ground]! Cause the arrows that they shoot to have no (heads/sharp points)!
8 Like the snail that dissolves on its crawling path, like the birth untimely which sees not the sunlight.
Cause them to become like snails that disappear in the slime; cause them to be like babies that are born dead!
9 Faster than a thorn-fire heats your pots, he will come with his tempest and sweep them away.
Get rid of them [as fast as] thornbushes are blown away [after they are cut] (OR, [as fast as] a fire heats a pot over burning thorns).
10 The sight of such vengeance will gladden the righteous; their feet they will wash in the blood of the wicked.
Righteous people will rejoice when they see wicked people being punished as they deserve; they will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.
11 People will say, “Yes, the just are rewarded: yes, on the earth is a God who is Judge.”
[Then] people will say, “It is true that there is a reward for righteous people; and there is indeed a God who judges people justly here on the earth!”
