Psalms 58
58
Judge of the Judges
For the Pure and Shining One
King David’s golden song of instruction
To the tune of “Do Not Destroy”
1-2God’s justice? You high and mighty politicians
know nothing about it!
Which one of you has walked in justice toward others?
Which one of you has treated everyone right and fair?
Not one! You only give “justice” in exchange for a bribe.
For the right price you let others get away with murder.
3-4Wicked wanderers even from the womb—that’s who you are!
You lie with your words, and your teaching is poison. # 58:3–4 The Hebrew reads “venom of a serpent,” which is a clear metaphor for wrong teaching.
5Like cobras closing their ears to the most expert of the charmers,
you strike out against all who are near.
6O God, break their fangs;
shatter the teeth of these ravenous lions!
7Let them disappear like water falling on thirsty ground.
Let all their weapons be useless.
8Let them be like snails dissolving into the slime.
Let them be cut off, never seeing the light of day!
9God will sweep them away so fast
that they’ll never know what hit them. # 58:9 The Hebrew here is recognized by nearly every scholar to be one of the most difficult verses in the Psalms to translate.
10The godly will celebrate in the triumph of good over evil,
and the lovers of God will trample
the wickedness of the wicked under their feet!
11Then everyone will say, “There is a God who judges the judges”
and “There is a great reward in loving God!”
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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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