Psalms 58

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 For the leader. Do not destroy. A miktam of David.	1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.
2 Do you indeed pronounce justice, O gods; do you judge mortals fairly?	2 If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.
3 No, you freely engage in crime; your hands dispense violence to the earth.	3 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
4 The wicked have been corrupt since birth; liars from the womb, they have gone astray.	4 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
5 Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like that of a serpent stopping its ears,	5 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
6 So as not to hear the voice of the charmer who casts such cunning spells.	6 Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
7 O God, smash the teeth in their mouths; break the jaw-teeth of these lions, LORD!	7 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
8 Make them vanish like water flowing away; trodden down, let them wither like grass.	8 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
9 Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away, like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.	9 Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
10 Suddenly, like brambles or thistles, have the whirlwind snatch them away.	10 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
11 Then the just shall rejoice to see the vengeance and bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.	11 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
12 Then it will be said: "Truly there is a reward for the just; there is a God who is judge on earth!"	12 And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.