Psalms 58

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
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!"