Psalm 58 NLT ISV Parallel

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1Justice—do you rulers know the meaning of the word? Do you judge the people fairly?

1How is it that by remaining silent you can speak righteously? How can you judge people fairly?

2No! You plot injustice in your hearts. You spread violence throughout the land.

2As a matter of fact, in your heart you plan iniquities! In the land your hands are violent!

3These wicked people are born sinners; even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.

3The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth.

4They spit venom like deadly snakes; they are like cobras that refuse to listen,

4Their venom is like a poisonous snake; even like a deaf serpent that shuts its ears,

5ignoring the tunes of the snake charmers, no matter how skillfully they play.

5refusing to hear the voice of the snake charmer, the cunning enchanter.

6Break off their fangs, O God! Smash the jaws of these lions, O LORD!

6God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; LORD, break the fangs of the young lions!

7May they disappear like water into thirsty ground. Make their weapons useless in their hands.

7May they flow away like rain water that runs off, may they become like someone who shoots broken arrows.

8May they be like snails that dissolve into slime, like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.

8May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman's stillborn baby, who never saw the sun.

9God will sweep them away, both young and old, faster than a pot heats over burning thorns.

9Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns— whether green or ablaze— wrath will sweep them away like a storm.

10The godly will rejoice when they see injustice avenged. They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.

10The righteous person will rejoice when he sees your vengeance; when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked.

11Then at last everyone will say, “There truly is a reward for those who live for God; surely there is a God who judges justly here on earth.”

11A person will say, "Certainly, the righteous are rewarded; certainly there is a God who judges the earth."