Psalms 58

1 To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

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 Yes, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

3 The wicked are estranged from their birth: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;

Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:

5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.

6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.

7 Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

8 As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.

Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.

Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

11 So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in 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.