Psalmorum 58

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

For the leader. Al tashheth. Of David. A michtam. Do you speak what is right, you gods? With equity judge you your people?

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

In the land you practise iniquity – all of you; violence do you dispense with your hands.

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

The wicked go astray from the womb liars take the wrong path from their birth.

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

Venom have they like the venom of snakes, they are like the deaf adder that stops her ears,

5 quae non exaudiet vocem incantantium et venefici incantantis sapienter

and refuses to listen to the voice of the charmer, or binder of spells, no matter how cunning.

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

O God, break to pieces the teeth in their mouth, tear out the great teeth of the young lions, Lord.

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

May they melt away like running water! Like tender grass, cut down may they be!

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

Like the snail that dissolves on its crawling path, like the birth untimely which sees not the sunlight.

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

Faster than a thorn-fire heats your pots, he will come with his tempest and sweep them away.

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

The sight of such vengeance will gladden the righteous; their feet they will wash in the blood of the wicked.

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

People will say, “Yes, the just are rewarded: yes, on the earth is a God who is Judge.”