Psalms 58

DOUAI-RHEIMS	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.	1 To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David. Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the sons of men uprightly?
2 If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.	2 Nay, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
3 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.	3 The wicked go astray from the womb, they err from their birth, speaking lies.
4 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.	4 They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
5 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:	5 so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
6 Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.	6 O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!
7 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.	7 Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.
8 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.	8 Let them be like the snail which dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth 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 Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
10 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.	10 The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will 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 Men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges 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.