Psalms 58 / 150
- 1Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge uprightly among men?
- 2No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
- 3Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies.
- 4Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
- 5that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.
- 6Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; tear out, O LORD , the fangs of the lions!
- 7Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted.
- 8Like a slug melting away as it moves along, like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun.
- 9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns- whether they be green or dry-the wicked will be swept away.
- 10The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
- 11Then men will say, "Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth."