Psalms 58

NEW JERUSALEM	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
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!"