Psalms, 58

1. To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

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

2. You gods, are your decrees just, and are your judgments upright?

3. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

3. No, you willfully commit crimes; you deal in violence and corruption.

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

4. Even from the womb the wicked go astray; from birth they are wayward liars.

5. Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

5. They are poisonous like deadly snakes, deaf as the adder

6. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

6. that blocks its ears so as not to hear the charmer's voice casting spells.

7. Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

7. Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; tear out the fangs of the lions, O Lord.

8. As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.

8. Let them vanish like spilled water; let them be trodden down like grass that withers.

9. Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.

9. Let them be like snails that sink into slime, like untimely births that never see the sun.

10. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

10. Like green grass that is burned before the thorns are dry, let them be swept away!

11. So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

11. The upright will rejoice when they are avenged; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

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12. Then will people say, "Surely the righteous are rewarded; surely there is a God who gives judgment on earth."