Psalms 58:1
To the Overseer. --`Destroy not.' --A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?
Psalms 58:2
Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
Psalms 58:3
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
Psalms 58:4
Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
Psalms 58:5
Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
Psalms 58:6
O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
Psalms 58:7
They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
Psalms 58:8
As a snail that melteth he goeth on, As an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
Psalms 58:9
Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
Psalms 58:10
The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 58:11
And man saith: `Surely fruit is for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'