Psalm 58
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1Justice—do you rulers know the meaning of the word? Do you judge the people fairly?1To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2No! You plot injustice in your hearts. You spread violence throughout the land.2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3These wicked people are born sinners; even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4They spit venom like deadly snakes; they are like cobras that refuse to listen,4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5ignoring the tunes of the snake charmers, no matter how skillfully they play.5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6Break off their fangs, O God! Smash the jaws of these lions, O LORD!6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7May they disappear like water into thirsty ground. Make their weapons useless in their hands.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.
8May they be like snails that dissolve into slime, like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.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.
9God will sweep them away, both young and old, faster than a pot heats over burning thorns.9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10The godly will rejoice when they see injustice avenged. They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash 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.”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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