Psalms 58
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Psalm 58
For the choir director; al tashcheth; a miktam by David.
1Do you rulers really give fair verdicts?
Do you judge Adam’s descendants fairly?
2No, you invent new crimes on earth,
and your hands spread violence.
3 ⌞Even⌟ inside the womb wicked people are strangers ⌞to God⌟.
From their birth liars go astray.
4They have poisonous venom like snakes.
They are like a deaf cobra that shuts its ears
5so that it cannot hear the voice of a snake charmer
or of anyone trained to cast spells.
6O God, knock the teeth out of their mouths.
Break the young lions’ teeth, O Lord.
7Let them disappear like water that drains away.
When they aim their bows, let their arrows miss the target.
8Let them become like a snail that leaves behind a slimy trail
or like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9Let ⌞God⌟ sweep them away
faster than a cooking pot is heated by burning twigs.
10Righteous people will rejoice when they see ⌞God⌟ take revenge.
They will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.
11Then people will say,
“Righteous people certainly have a reward.
There is a God who judges on earth.”
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Psalms 58
58
For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David: Michtam.
1Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness?
Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness;
Ye weigh out 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 hearkeneth not 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 water that runneth apace:
When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
8 Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away:
Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
9Before your pots can feel the thorns,
He shall take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:
Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
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