Psalms 58

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.	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?
2 If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.	2 No! You devise injustice in your hearts, and with your hands you administer tyranny on the earth.
3 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.	3 Since the womb they have gone astray, the wicked, on the wrong path since their birth, with theirunjust verdicts.
4 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.	4 They are poisonous as any snake, deaf as an adder that blocks its ears
5 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:	5 so as not to hear the magician's music, however skilful his spel s.
6 Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.	6 God, break the teeth in their mouths, snap off the fangs of these young lions, Yahweh.
7 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.	7 May they drain away like water running to waste, may they wither like trampled grass,
8 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.	8 like the slug that melts as it moves or a still-born child that never sees the sun.
9 Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.	9 Before they sprout thorns like the bramble, green or burnt up, may retribution whirl them away.
10 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.	10 The upright wil rejoice to see vengeance done, and wil bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.	11 'So', people wil say, 'the upright does have a reward; there is a God to dispense justice on earth.'
12 And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.