Psalms 58
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PSALM 58
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith,
Michtam of David.
1Do ye, O congregation,
indeed speak righteousness?
O ye that are the sons of men,
judge ye with uprightness?
2Yea, ev'n within your very hearts
ye wickedness have done;
And ye the vi'lence of your hands
do weigh the earth upon.
3The wicked men estranged are,
ev'n from the very womb;
They, speaking lies, do stray as soon
as to the world they come.
4Unto a serpent's poison like
their poison doth appear;
Yea, they are like the adder deaf,
that closely stops her ear;
5That so she may not hear the voice
of one that charm her would,
No, not though he most cunning were,
and charm most wisely could.
6Their teeth, O God, within their mouth
break thou in pieces small;
The great teeth break thou out, O Lord,
of these young lions all.
7Let them like waters melt away,
which downward still do flow:
In pieces cut his arrows all,
when he shall bend his bow.
8Like to a snail that melts away,
let each of them be gone;
Like woman's birth untimely, that
they never see the sun.
9He shall them take away before
your pots the thorns can find,
Both living, and in fury great,
as with a stormy wind.
10The righteous, when he vengeance sees,
he shall be joyful then;
The righteous one shall wash his feet
in blood of wicked men.
11So men shall say,
The righteous man
reward shall never miss:
And verily upon the earth
a God to judge there is.
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Tehillim (Psa) 58
58
1For the leader. Set to “Do Not Destroy.” By David, a mikhtam:
2[Rulers,] does your silence really speak justice?
Are you judging people fairly?
3[No!] In your hearts you devise wrongs,
your hands dispense violence in the land.
4From the womb, the wicked are estranged,
liars on the wrong path since birth.
5Their venom is like snake’s venom;
they are like a serpent that stops its ears,
6so as not to hear the voice of the charmer,
no matter how well he plays.
7God, break their teeth in their mouth!
Shatter the fangs of these lions, Adonai!
8May they vanish like water that drains away.
May their arrows be blunted when they aim their bows.
9May they be like a slug that melts as it moves,
like a stillborn baby that never sees the sun.
10Before your cook-pots feel the heat of the burning thorns,
may he blow them away, green and blazing alike.
11The righteous will rejoice to see vengeance done,
they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked;
12and people will say, “Yes, the righteous are rewarded;
there is, after all, a God who judges the earth.”
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