Psalms 58

¹TO THE OVERSEER. “DO NOT DESTROY.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID. Is it true, O silent one, that you speak righteously? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

²Even in heart you work iniquities, In the land you ponder the violence of your hands.

³The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

⁴Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf cobra shutting its ear,

⁵Which does not listen to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of most skillful charms.

⁶O God, break their teeth in their mouth, Break down the jaw-teeth of young lions, O YHWH.

⁷They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceeds as they cut themselves off.

⁸He goes on as a snail that melts, As an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

⁹Before your pots discern the bramble, As living, He whirls away in His burning anger.

¹⁰The righteous rejoices that he has seen vengeance, He washes his steps in the blood of the wicked.

¹¹And man says: “Surely fruit is for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!”

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