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The Just Judgment of the Wicked

To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not Destroy.” A Michtam of David.

1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones?
Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?
2 No, in heart you work wickedness;
You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 aThe wicked are estranged from the womb;
They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. 
4 aTheir poison is like the poison of a serpent;
They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear, 
5 Which will not aheed the voice of charmers,
Charming ever so skillfully. 
6 aBreak1 their teeth in their mouth, O God!
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord! 
7 aLet them flow away as waters which run continually;
When he bends his bow,
Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces. 
8 Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,
aLike a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun. 
9 Before your apots can feel the burning thorns,
He shall take them away bas with a whirlwind,
As in His living and burning wrath. 
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the avengeance;
bHe shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, 
11 aSo that men will say,
“Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
Surely He is God who bjudges in the earth.” 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Psalms 58:1

David's critical condition in some period of the Sauline persecution probably occasioned this Psalm, in which the Psalmist teaches that the innate and actual sinfulness of men deserves, and shall receive, God's righteous vengeance, while the pious may be consoled by the evidence of His wise and holy government of men. (Psalms 58:1-11)

O congregation—literally, "Oh, dumb"; the word used is never translated "congregation." "Are ye dumb? ye should speak righteousness," may be the translation. In any case, the writer remonstrates with them, perhaps a council, who were assembled to try his cause, and bound to give a right decision.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Psalms 58:1:

Psalms 58:1
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