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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God Who Judges the Earth
To the choirmaster: according to #See Ps. 57, title Do Not Destroy. A #See Ps. 16, titleMiktam#58:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term of David.
1Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?#58:1 Or you mighty lords (by revocalization; Hebrew in silence)
Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
2No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
your hands #[Ps. 94:20]deal out violence on earth.
3The wicked are #Ps. 51:5; Isa. 48:8estranged from the womb;
they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
4 #
Ps. 140:3; [Deut. 32:33] They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
5so that it #Jer. 8:17does not hear the voice of charmers
or of the cunning enchanter.
6O God, #Ps. 3:7; Job 4:10; 29:17break the teeth in their mouths;
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
7Let them #Ps. 112:10; Josh. 7:5 vanish like water that runs away;
when he #Ps. 64:3aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
8Let them be like the snail #[See ver. 7 above] that dissolves into slime,
like #See Job 3:16the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of #Ps. 118:12; Eccles. 7:6 thorns,
whether green or ablaze, may he #[Job 27:21; See Prov. 10:25]sweep them away!#58:9 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
10 #
Deut. 32:43; See Job 22:19 The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
he will #Ps. 68:23bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11Mankind will say, “Surely there is #Isa. 3:10 a reward for the righteous;
surely there is a God who #Ps. 67:4; 94:2; Gen. 18:25; Job 19:29; Eccles. 12:14judges on earth.”
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