58:1  

  • To the Chief Musician. "Do not destroy." A secret treasure of David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, O mighty lords? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
  • 58:2  Yea! In your heart you work wickedness; you weigh out the violence from your hands in the earth.

    58:3  The wicked are estranged from the womb; they who speak lies go astray from birth.

    58:4  Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; he stops his ear like the deaf adder,

    58:5  Which will not listen to the charmer's voice, though a skillful caster of spells.

    58:6  O God, break their teeth in their mouth; shatter the fangs of the young lions, O LORD.

    58:7  Let them melt away like waters which run off continually. When he aims his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

    58:8  Let them be as a slug which is melting away; as a miscarriage of a woman, so they may never see the sun.

    58:9  Before your pots can feel the thorns, He shall take them away as with a whirlwind— whether green or dry.

    58:10  The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he shall bathe his footsteps in the blood of the wicked,

    58:11  So that a man shall say, "Truly, there is a reward for the righteous; truly, there is a God Who is judging in the earth."