Psalms 58
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Psalm 58
For the music leader. Do not destroy. A psalm of David, a miktam.#58.0 Perhaps inscription
1Do you really speak what is right, you gods?
Do you really judge humans fairly?
2No: in your hearts you plan injustice;
your hands do violence on the earth.
3The wicked backslide from the womb;
liars go astray from birth.
4Their venom is like a snake’s venom—
like a deaf cobra’s—one that shuts its ears
5so it can’t hear the snake charmer’s voice
or the spells of a skillful enchanter.
6God, break their teeth out of their mouths!
Tear out the lions’ jawbones, LORD!
7Let them dissolve like water flowing away.
When they bend the bow,
let their arrows be like headless shafts.#58.7 Heb uncertain
8Like the snail that dissolves into slime,
like a woman’s stillborn child,
let them never see the sun.
9Before your pots feel the thorns,
whether green or burned up,
God will sweep them away!#58.9 Heb uncertain
10But the righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done,
when they wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
11Then it will be said:
“Yes, there is a reward for the righteous!
Yes, there is a God who judges people on the earth.”
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Psalm 58
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To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David.
1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?
Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness;
Ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3The wicked are estranged from the womb:
They go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:
They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers,
Charming never so wisely.
6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8As 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.
9Before your pots can feel the thorns,
He shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:
Verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
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