Psalms 58

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 For the leader. Do not destroy. A miktam of David.	1 Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when Saul sent and watched his house, in order to execute him.
2 Do you indeed pronounce justice, O gods; do you judge mortals fairly?	2 Rescue me from my enemies, my God, and free me from those who rise up against me.
3 No, you freely engage in crime; your hands dispense violence to the earth.	3 Rescue me from those who work iniquity, and save me from men of blood.
4 The wicked have been corrupt since birth; liars from the womb, they have gone astray.	4 For behold, they have seized my soul. The strong have rushed upon me.
5 Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like that of a serpent stopping its ears,	5 And it is neither my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord. I have run and gone directly, without iniquity.
6 So as not to hear the voice of the charmer who casts such cunning spells.	6 Rise up to meet me, and see: even you, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Reach out to visit all nations. Do not take pity on all those who work iniquity.
7 O God, smash the teeth in their mouths; break the jaw-teeth of these lions, LORD!	7 They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city.
8 Make them vanish like water flowing away; trodden down, let them wither like grass.	8 Behold, they will speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: “For who has heard us?”
9 Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away, like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.	9 And you, O Lord, will laugh at them. You will lead all the Gentiles to nothing.
10 Suddenly, like brambles or thistles, have the whirlwind snatch them away.	10 I will guard my strength toward you, for you are God, my supporter.
11 Then the just shall rejoice to see the vengeance and bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.	11 My God, his mercy will precede me.
12 Then it will be said: "Truly there is a reward for the just; there is a God who is judge on earth!"	12 God will oversee my enemies for me. Do not slay them, lest at times my people may forget them. Scatter them by your virtue. And depose them, O Lord, my protector,
	13 by the offense of their mouth and by the speech of their lips. And may they be caught in their arrogance. And, for their cursing and lying, they will be made known
	14 at the consummation, in the fury of the consummation, and so they will be no more. And they will know that God will rule over Jacob, even to the ends of the earth.
	15 They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city.
	16 They will be dispersed in order to gnaw, and truly, when they will not have been satisfied, they will murmur.
	17 But I will sing your strength, and I will extol your mercy, in the morning. For you have been my supporter and my refuge in the day of my tribulation.
	18 To you, my helper, I will sing psalms. For you are God, my supporter. My God is my mercy.