Psalms 58
58
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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Psalms 58
58
God Really Judges
1For the music director: “Do Not Destroy,” a Michtam of David.
2Do you really speak of justice, O “gods”? Do you judge with fairness, sons of man?
3No, in heart you devise injustice. Your hands weigh out violence on earth.
4The wicked are strangers from the womb. Speaking lies, they go astray from birth.
5Their venom is like a serpent’s venom, like a deaf cobra shutting its ear—
6not hearing the voice of charmers, or a cunning spell binder.
7O God, break their teeth in their mouths. Tear out the fangs of young lions, Adonai.
8Let them flow away like water that runs off. When he bends his bow, let the arrows be cut off.
9Like a slug melting away as it slithers, like a woman’s miscarriage, may they never see the sun.
10Even before your pots can feel a thorn —whether alive or ablaze— He will sweep the wicked away.
11The righteous one will rejoice when he beholds vengeance, when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked.
12Then men will say: “There really is a reward for the righteous. There really is a God who judges on earth!”
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