Psa 58 | ASV | e4.org | For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. Michtam. Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

‏ Psalms 58

1 For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. Michtam. ^▼▼1 Do ye indeed ^▼▼2 in silence speak righteousness? Do ye ^▼▼3 judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? ^{▼▼1) Or Is the righteousness ye should speak dumb? 2) Or as otherwise read O ye gods ; Or O ye mighty ones 3) Or judge uprightly the sons of men} 2 Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, 5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of ^▼▼1 charmers, Charming never so wisely. ^{▼▼1) Or enchanters}

6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah. 7 Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off. 8 Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, ^▼▼1 that hath not seen the sun. ^{▼▼1) Or, like them that have not seen the sun} 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, ^▼▼1 He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike. ^{▼▼1) Or Wrath shall take them away while living as with a whirlwind} 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; 11 So that men shall say, Verily there is ^▼▼1 a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. ^{▼▼1) Heb fruit}