58:1 DO YOU indeed in silence speak righteousness, O you mighty ones? [Or is the righteousness, rightness, and justice you should speak quite dumb?] Do you judge fairly {and} uprightly, O you sons of men? |
58:2 No, in your heart you devise wickedness; you deal out in the land the violence of your hands. |
58:3 The ungodly are perverse {and} estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. |
58:4 Their poison is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder {or} asp that stops its ear, |
58:5 Which listens not to the voice of charmers {or} of the enchanter never casting spells so cunningly. |
58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths; break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord. |
58:7 Let them melt away as water which runs on apace; when he aims his arrows, let them be as if they were headless {or} split apart. |
58:8 Let them be as a snail dissolving slime as it passes on {or} as a festering sore which wastes away, like [the child to which] a woman gives untimely birth that has not seen the sun. |
58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns [that are placed under them for fuel], He will take them away as with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike. |
58:10 The [unyieldingly] righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked. |
58:11 Men will say, Surely there is a reward for the [uncompromisingly] righteous; surely there is a God Who judges on the earth. |