Psalms 58
1 When you mighty men speak, you never say what is right; you never decide things about people justly [RHQ]!
Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title. If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.
2 No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong, and you commit violent crimes in this land [of Israel].
For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
3 Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born [DOU].
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
4 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]!
Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
5 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].
Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
6 God, as for these enemies who [want to attack me like] young lions, break their teeth!
God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
7 Cause them to disappear like water disappears [in dry ground]! Cause the arrows that they shoot to have no (heads/sharp points)!
They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
8 Cause them to become like snails that disappear in the slime; cause them to be like babies that are born dead!
Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
9 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).
Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
10 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.
The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11 [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!”
And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.
