Psalmorum 58

1 in finem ne disperdas David in tituli inscriptione si vere utique iustitiam loquimini recta iudicate filii hominum

To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam. Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?

2 etenim in corde iniquitates operamini in terra iniustitiam manus vestrae concinnant

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

3 alienati sunt peccatores a vulva erraverunt ab utero locuti sunt falsa

The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

4 furor illis secundum similitudinem serpentis sicut aspidis surdae et obturantis aures suas

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

5 quae non exaudiet vocem incantantium et venefici incantantis sapienter

Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely.

6 Deus conteret dentes eorum in ore ipsorum molas leonum confringet Dominus

O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

7 ad nihilum devenient tamquam aqua decurrens intendit arcum suum donec infirmentur

Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:

8 sicut cera quae fluit auferentur supercecidit ignis et non viderunt solem

Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.

9 priusquam intellegerent spinae vestrae ramnum sicut viventes sicut in ira absorbet vos

Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, — they shall be whirled away.

10 laetabitur iustus cum viderit vindictam manus suas lavabit in sanguine peccatoris

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:

11 et dicet homo si utique est fructus iusto utique est Deus iudicans eos in terra

And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.