Psalms 58
1 To the Chief Musician. "Do not Destroy." A precious Psalm, of David. Are ye, indeed, silent [when] righteousness, ye should speak? When, with equity, ye should judge, O ye sons of men?
Do all of you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do all of you judge uprightly, O all of you sons of men?
2 Aye! ye all do work, perversity, —Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence!
Yea, in heart all of you work wickedness; all of you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
The wicked are cut off from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison, is like unto the poison of a serpent, Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth his ear;
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear;
5 That will not hearken to the voice of whisperers, Though the wise one try to bind him with spells.
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 O God! break away their teeth in their mouth, The biters of the young lions, knock thou out, O Yahweh!
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let such men flow away like waters that disperse themselves: He prepareth his arrow, Like [grass] let them be cut down:
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 Like a snail, which melteth away as it goeth, An untimely birth of a woman, which hath not seen the sun:
As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Before your kettles can perceive the [kindled] bramble, Be he green or be he withered, he shall be swept away.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10 The righteous man will rejoice when he hath seen an avenging, His feet, will he bathe in the blood of the lawless one: —
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a son of earth may say—Surely there is fruit for the righteous man! Surely there are gods who judge in the earth!
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judges in the earth.
