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
58
To the Overseer. — ‘Destroy not.’ — A secret treasure, by David.
1Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?
2Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
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 asp shutting its ear,
5Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
6O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
7They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
8As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
9Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
10The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.
11And man saith: ‘Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!’
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