Psalm 58

Psalm 58

To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not Destroy.” A Michtam of David.

¹Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones?

Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?

²No, in heart you work wickedness;

You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

^3aThe wicked are estranged from the womb;

They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

^4bTheir poison is like the poison of a serpent;

They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,

⁵Which will not ^cheed the voice of charmers,

Charming ever so skillfully.

^6dBreak ²their teeth in their mouth, O God!

Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!

^7eLet them flow away as waters which run continually;

When he bends his bow,

Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.

⁸Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,

^fLike a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

⁹Before your ^gpots can feel the burning thorns,

He shall take them away ^has with a whirlwind,

As in His living and burning wrath.

¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the ⁱvengeance;

^jHe shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

^11kSo that men will say,

“Surely there is a reward for the righteous;

Surely He is God who ^ljudges in the earth.”