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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Psalms 58
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Psalm 58
For the music leader. Do not destroy. A psalm of David, a miktam.#58.0 Perhaps inscription
1Do you really speak what is right, you gods?
Do you really judge humans fairly?
2No: in your hearts you plan injustice;
your hands do violence on the earth.
3The wicked backslide from the womb;
liars go astray from birth.
4Their venom is like a snake’s venom—
like a deaf cobra’s—one that shuts its ears
5so it can’t hear the snake charmer’s voice
or the spells of a skillful enchanter.
6God, break their teeth out of their mouths!
Tear out the lions’ jawbones, LORD!
7Let them dissolve like water flowing away.
When they bend the bow,
let their arrows be like headless shafts.#58.7 Heb uncertain
8Like the snail that dissolves into slime,
like a woman’s stillborn child,
let them never see the sun.
9Before your pots feel the thorns,
whether green or burned up,
God will sweep them away!#58.9 Heb uncertain
10But the righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done,
when they wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
11Then it will be said:
“Yes, there is a reward for the righteous!
Yes, there is a God who judges people on the earth.”
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