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Psalms 58
King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam (note: Miktam is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 16 and 56–60.) of David. Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born (note: Heb. from the belly), speaking lies.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
Their poison is like the (note: Heb. according to the likeness) poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder (note: Or, asp) that stoppeth her ear;
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely (note: Or, be the charmer never so cunning).
refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted (note: Or when they are trodden down, may they wither like grass).
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath (note: Heb. as living, as wrath).
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for (note: Heb. fruit of the etc.) the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Then men will say, “There is surely a reward for the righteous! There is surely a God who judges the earth!”