Psalms - Chapter 58 | American Standard Version

  • 1. For the Chief Musician; {cf15i set to} Al-tashheth. {cf15i A Psalm} of David. A miktam. Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye 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: {cf15i They are} like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
  • 5. Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely.
  • 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. {cf15i Let them be} as a snail which melteth and passeth away, {cf15i Like} the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
  • 9. Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
  • 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 a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
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