Psalm 58 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ Would you indeed speak righteousness, in silence? Do you judge straightly, you sons of men?

² No, in heart you work unrighteousness; On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.

³ The wrong have been estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

⁵ So as not to hear the voice of whisperers, Or a skilled caster of spells.

⁶ O Elohim, break their teeth in their mouth! Break out the fangs of the young lions, O יהוה!

⁷ Let them melt, let them vanish as water; Let Him aim His arrows that they be cut down;

⁸ Like a snail which melts away as it moves, Like a woman’s stillbirth, Let them not see the sun!

⁹ Before your pots feel the thorns, Whether green or ablaze, He sweeps them away.

¹⁰ The righteous rejoices when he has seen the vengeance, He washes his feet in the blood of the wrong,

¹¹ And man says, “Truly, the righteous are rewarded; Truly, there is an Elohim judging in the earth.”