Psalms 58
1 When you mighty men speak, you never say what is right; you never decide things about people justly [RHQ]!
For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If you do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you judge rightly, you 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 you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
3 Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born [DOU].
Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
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 venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops 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 charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.
6 God, as for these enemies who [want to attack me like] young lions, break their teeth!
God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth 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 utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
8 Cause them to become like snails that disappear in the slime; cause them to be like babies that are born dead!
They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen 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 feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as 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 righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: 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 a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.
