詩篇 58
1 聖歌隊の指揮者によって、「滅ぼすな」というしらべにあわせてうたわせたダビデのミクタムの歌 あなたがた力ある者よ、まことにあなたがたは正しい事を語り、公平をもって人の子らをさばくのか。
When you mighty men speak, you never say what is right; you never decide things about people justly [RHQ]!
2 否、あなたがたは心のうちに悪い事をたくらみ、その手は地に暴虐を行う。
No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong, and you commit violent crimes in this land [of Israel].
3 悪しき者は胎を出た時から、そむき去り、生れ出た時から、あやまちを犯し、偽りを語る。
Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born [DOU].
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]!
5 彼らはへびの毒のような毒をもち、魔法使または巧みに呪文を唱える者の声を聞かない耳をふさぐ耳しいのまむしのようである。
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].
6 神よ、彼らの口の歯を折ってください。主よ、若いししのきばを抜き砕いてください。
God, as for these enemies who [want to attack me like] young lions, break their teeth!
7 彼らを流れゆく水のように消え去らせ、踏み倒される若草のように衰えさせてください。
Cause them to disappear like water disappears [in dry ground]! Cause the arrows that they shoot to have no (heads/sharp points)!
8 また溶けてどろどろになるかたつむりのように、時ならず生れた日を見ぬ子のようにしてください。
Cause them to become like snails that disappear in the slime; cause them to be like babies that are born dead!
9 あなたがたの釜がまだいばらの熱を感じない前に青いのも、燃えているのも共につむじ風に吹き払われるように彼らを吹き払ってください。
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).
10 正しい者は復讐を見て喜び、その足を悪しき者の血で洗うであろう。
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.
11 そして人々は言うであろう、「まことに正しい者には報いがある。まことに地にさばきを行われる神がある」と。
[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!”
