Psalms 58
1 To the Overseer. — 'Destroy not.' — A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?
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 Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
3 The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
4 Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.
6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
7 They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
8 As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
9 Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
10 The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11 And man saith: 'Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in 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.
