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?
“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?
2 Aye! ye all do work, perversity, —Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence!
Even in [your] heart ye work injustice: on the earth do ye weigh out the violence of your hands.
3 Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
The wicked are estranged [from goodness] from the womb: those who speak lies go astray from their very birth.
4 Their poison, is like unto the poison of a serpent, Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth his ear;
They have poison like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth 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 conjurers, yea, that of the wisest of all charmers.
6 O God! break away their teeth in their mouth, The biters of the young lions, knock thou out, O Yahweh!
O God, break out their teeth in their mouth: the jaw-teeth of the young lions tear thou out, 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 water [which] runneth off: when each one bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as if 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 melteth, let him pass away; like the untimely birth of a woman which hath not seen 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, will he take them away with a whirlwind, both the green and the burning.
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 will rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he will bathe his steps 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 fruit will come for the righteous: verily there is a God that judgeth on the earth.
