Psalm 58
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?12 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.3 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;45 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord. Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.7 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.8
158:1Al–taschith…: or, Destroy not258:1Michtam: or, A golden Psalm358:3as soon…: Heb. from the belly458:4like the poison: Heb. according to the likeness, etc558:4adder: or, asp658:5charming…: or, be the charmer never so cunning758:9both…: Heb. as living as wrath858:11a reward…: Heb. fruit of the, etc