Psalms 58

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?	1 For the leader. Do not destroy. A miktam of David.
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.	2 Do you indeed pronounce justice, O gods; do you judge mortals fairly?
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.	3 No, you freely engage in crime; your hands dispense violence to the earth.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;	4 The wicked have been corrupt since birth; liars from the womb, they have gone astray.
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.	5 Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like that of a serpent stopping its ears,
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.	6 So as not to hear the voice of the charmer who casts such cunning spells.
7 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.	7 O God, smash the teeth in their mouths; break the jaw-teeth of these lions, LORD!
8 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.	8 Make them vanish like water flowing away; trodden down, let them wither like grass.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.	9 Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away, like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.	10 Suddenly, like brambles or thistles, have the whirlwind snatch them away.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.	11 Then the just shall rejoice to see the vengeance and bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
	12 Then it will be said: "Truly there is a reward for the just; there is a God who is judge on earth!"