Psalms 58

1 Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title. If, truly and certainly, you speak justice, then judge what is right, you sons of men.

For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If you do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you judge rightly, you sons of men.

2 For, even in your heart, you work iniquity. Your hands construct injustice on the earth.

For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.

3 Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.

Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.

4 Their fury is similar to that of a serpent; it is like a deaf asp, who even blocks her ears,

Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

5 who will not listen to the voice of charmers, nor even to the enchanter who chants wisely.

which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.

6 God will crush their teeth within their own mouth. The Lord will break the molars of the lions.

God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.

7 They will come to nothing, like water flowing away. He has aimed his bow, while they are being weakened.

They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.

8 Like wax that flows, they will be carried away. Fire has fallen upon them, and they will not see the sun.

They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

9 Before your thorns could know the brier, he consumes them alive, as if in rage.

Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.

10 The just one will rejoice when he sees vindication. He will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

11 And man will say, “If the just one is fruitful, then, truly, there is a God judging them on earth.”

And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.