Psalms 58
58
Judge of the Judges
For the Pure and Shining One
King David’s golden song of instruction
To the tune of “Do Not Destroy”
1-2God’s justice? You high and mighty politicians
know nothing about it!
Which one of you has walked in justice toward others?
Which one of you has treated everyone right and fair?
Not one! You only give “justice” in exchange for a bribe.
For the right price you let others get away with murder.
3-4Wicked wanderers even from the womb—that’s who you are!
You lie with your words, and your teaching is poison. # 58:3–4 The Hebrew reads “venom of a serpent,” which is a clear metaphor for wrong teaching.
5Like cobras closing their ears to the most expert of the charmers,
you strike out against all who are near.
6O God, break their fangs;
shatter the teeth of these ravenous lions!
7Let them disappear like water falling on thirsty ground.
Let all their weapons be useless.
8Let them be like snails dissolving into the slime.
Let them be cut off, never seeing the light of day!
9God will sweep them away so fast
that they’ll never know what hit them. # 58:9 The Hebrew here is recognized by nearly every scholar to be one of the most difficult verses in the Psalms to translate.
10The godly will celebrate in the triumph of good over evil,
and the lovers of God will trample
the wickedness of the wicked under their feet!
11Then everyone will say, “There is a God who judges the judges”
and “There is a great reward in loving God!”
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PSALM 58
To the chief Musician. ‘Destroy not.’ Of David. Michtam.
1Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men? 2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. 3The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies. 4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear; 5Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely.
6O God#GodHebrew: Elohim break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah. 7Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted: 8Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; like the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun. 9Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, — they shall be whirled away. 10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked: 11And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God#GodHebrew: Elohim that judgeth in the earth.
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.