Psalms - Chapter 58 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Do you rulers ever give a just decision? Do you judge everyone fairly?
  • 2. No! You think only of the evil you can do, and commit crimes of violence in the land.
  • 3. Evildoers go wrong all their lives; they tell lies from the day they are born.
  • 4. They are full of poison like snakes; they stop up their ears like a deaf cobra,
  • 5. which does not hear the voice of the snake charmer, or the chant of the clever magician.
  • 6. Break the teeth of these fierce lions, O God.
  • 7. May they disappear like water draining away; may they be crushed like weeds on a path.
  • 8. May they be like snails that dissolve into slime; may they be like a baby born dead that never sees the light.
  • 9. Before they know it, they are cut down like weeds; in his fierce anger God will blow them away while they are still living.
  • 10. The righteous will be glad when they see sinners punished; they will wade through the blood of the wicked.
  • 11. People will say, "The righteous are indeed rewarded; there is indeed a God who judges the world."
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