Psalms 58

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.	1 For the leader. Do not destroy. A miktam of David.
2 If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.	2 Do you indeed pronounce justice, O gods; do you judge mortals fairly?
3 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.	3 No, you freely engage in crime; your hands dispense violence to the earth.
4 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.	4 The wicked have been corrupt since birth; liars from the womb, they have gone astray.
5 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:	5 Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like that of a serpent stopping its ears,
6 Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.	6 So as not to hear the voice of the charmer who casts such cunning spells.
7 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.	7 O God, smash the teeth in their mouths; break the jaw-teeth of these lions, LORD!
8 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.	8 Make them vanish like water flowing away; trodden down, let them wither like grass.
9 Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.	9 Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away, like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.
10 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.	10 Suddenly, like brambles or thistles, have the whirlwind snatch them away.
11 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.	11 Then the just shall rejoice to see the vengeance and bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
12 And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.	12 Then it will be said: "Truly there is a reward for the just; there is a God who is judge on earth!"