Zaburi 58

1 Kwa mwimbishaji. Mtindo wa “Usiharibu!” Utenzi wa Daudi. Enyi watawala, je, kweli mwanena kwa haki? Je, mnahukumu kwa unyofu miongoni mwa watu?

To the Chief Musician. "Do not Destroy." A precious Psalm, of David. Are ye, indeed, silent [when] righteousness, ye should speak? When, with equity, ye should judge, O ye sons of men?

2 La, mioyoni mwenu mnatunga udhalimu, na mikono yenu hupima jeuri duniani.

Aye! ye all do work, perversity, —Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence!

3 Waovu ni wapotovu tangu kuzaliwa kwao, toka tumboni mwa mama zao ni wakaidi na husema uongo.

Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;

4 Sumu yao ni kama sumu ya nyoka, kama ile ya fira ambaye ameziba masikio yake,

Their poison, is like unto the poison of a serpent, Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth his ear;

5 ambaye hatasikia sauti ya kutumbuiza ya mwaguzi, hata kama mganga angecheza kwa ustadi kiasi gani.

That will not hearken to the voice of whisperers, Though the wise one try to bind him with spells.

6 Ee Mungu, yavunje meno katika vinywa vyao; Ee Bwana, vunja meno makali ya hao simba!

O God! break away their teeth in their mouth, The biters of the young lions, knock thou out, O Yahweh!

7 Na watoweke kama maji yapitayo kwa kasi, wavutapo pinde zao, mishale yao na iwe butu.

Let such men flow away like waters that disperse themselves: He prepareth his arrow, Like [grass] let them be cut down:

8 Kama konokono ayeyukavyo akitembea, kama mtoto aliyezaliwa akiwa mfu, wasilione jua.

Like a snail, which melteth away as it goeth, An untimely birth of a woman, which hath not seen the sun:

9 Kabla vyungu vyenu havijapata moto wa kuni za miiba, zikiwa mbichi au kavu, waovu watakuwa wamefagiliwa mbali.

Before your kettles can perceive the [kindled] bramble, Be he green or be he withered, he shall be swept away.

10 Wenye haki watafurahi waonapo wakilipizwa kisasi, watakapochovya nyayo zao katika damu ya waovu.

The righteous man will rejoice when he hath seen an avenging, His feet, will he bathe in the blood of the lawless one: —

11 Ndipo wanadamu watasema, “Hakika utulivu wa wenye haki bado una thawabu, hakika kuna Mungu ahukumuye dunia.”

So that a son of earth may say—Surely there is fruit for the righteous man! Surely there are gods who judge in the earth!