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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PSALM 58
1 To victory, lose thou not the sweet song, either the seemly psalm, of David. Forsooth if ye speak rightfulness [or rightwiseness] verily; ye sons of men, deem rightfully [or evenly].
2For in heart ye work wickedness in earth; your hands make ready unrightfulnesses [or unrightwisenesses].
3Sinners were made aliens from the womb; they erred from the womb, they spake false things.
4Strong vengeance is to them, by the likeness of a serpent; as of a deaf snake, and stopping his ears.
5Which shall not hear the voice of charmers; and of a venom-maker charming ever so wisely.
6God shall all-break the teeth of them in their mouth; the Lord shall break altogether the great teeth of lions.
7They shall come to nought, as water running away; he bent his bow, till they be made sick.
8As wax that floateth [or floweth] away, they shall be taken away; fire fell above, and they saw not the sun.
9Before that your thorns understood the rhamn, either thieve-thorn; he swalloweth them so in ire, as with living men.
10The just [or rightwise] man shall be glad, when he shall see vengeance; he shall wash his hands in the blood of a sinner.
11And a man shall say truly, For fruit is to a just [or rightwise] man; truly God is deeming them in earth.
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