Psalm 58:1–5

1  Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?2

Do you judge the children of man uprightly?

2  No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;

your hands jdeal out violence on earth.

3  The wicked are kestranged from the womb;

they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

4  lThey have venom like the venom of a serpent,

like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

5  so that it mdoes not hear the voice of charmers

or of the cunning enchanter.