Psalms 58

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