Psalms 58

¹ For the leader. Do not destroy. A miktam of David.

² Do you indeed pronounce justice, O gods; do you judge mortals fairly?

³ No, you freely engage in crime; your hands dispense violence to the earth.

⁴ The wicked have been corrupt since birth; liars from the womb, they have gone astray.

⁵ Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like that of a serpent stopping its ears,

⁶ So as not to hear the voice of the charmer who casts such cunning spells.

⁷ O God, smash the teeth in their mouths; break the jaw-teeth of these lions, LORD!

⁸ Make them vanish like water flowing away; trodden down, let them wither like grass.

⁹ Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away, like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.

¹⁰ Suddenly, like brambles or thistles, have the whirlwind snatch them away.

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!"