Psalms 58

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¹ [For the choirmaster Tune: 'Do not destroy' Of David In a quiet voice] Divine as you are, do you trulygive upright verdicts? do you judge fairly the children of Adam?	¹ For the leader. Do not destroy. A miktam of David.
² No! You devise injustice in your hearts, and with your hands you administer tyranny on the earth.	² Do you indeed pronounce justice, O gods; do you judge mortals fairly?
³ Since the womb they have gone astray, the wicked, on the wrong path since their birth, with theirunjust verdicts.	³ No, you freely engage in crime; your hands dispense violence to the earth.
⁴ They are poisonous as any snake, deaf as an adder that blocks its ears	⁴ The wicked have been corrupt since birth; liars from the womb, they have gone astray.
⁵ so as not to hear the magician's music, however skilful his spel s.	⁵ Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like that of a serpent stopping its ears,
⁶ God, break the teeth in their mouths, snap off the fangs of these young lions, Yahweh.	⁶ So as not to hear the voice of the charmer who casts such cunning spells.
⁷ May they drain away like water running to waste, may they wither like trampled grass,	⁷ O God, smash the teeth in their mouths; break the jaw-teeth of these lions, LORD!
⁸ like the slug that melts as it moves or a still-born child that never sees the sun.	⁸ Make them vanish like water flowing away; trodden down, let them wither like grass.
⁹ Before they sprout thorns like the bramble, green or burnt up, may retribution whirl them away.	⁹ Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away, like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.
¹⁰ The upright wil rejoice to see vengeance done, and wil bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.	¹⁰ Suddenly, like brambles or thistles, have the whirlwind snatch them away.
¹¹ 'So', people wil say, 'the upright does have a reward; there is a God to dispense justice on earth.'	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!"