Psalms 58:1
Do ye indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Psalms 58:2
No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalms 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops her ear,
Psalms 58:5
which hearkens not to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely.
Psalms 58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
Psalms 58:7
Let them melt away as water that runs with haste. When he aims his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off,
Psalms 58:8
as a snail which melts and passes away, as the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.
Psalms 58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
Psalms 58:10
A righteous man shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
Psalms 58:11
so that men shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous man. Truly there is a God who judges in the earth.