Psalm 58 - American Standard Version 2015

¹ {\b For the Chief Musician; {\i set to} Al-tashheth. {\i A Psalm} of David. Michtam.}\par\par\tab Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness?\par\tab Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

² Nay, in heart ye work wickedness;\par\tab Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

³ The wicked are estranged from the womb:\par\tab They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:\par\tab {\i They are} like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,

⁵ Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers,\par\tab Charming never so wisely.

⁶ Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:\par\tab Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

⁷ Let them melt away as water that runneth apace:\par\tab When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

⁸ {\i Let them be} as a snail which melteth and passeth away,\par\tab {\i Like} the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

⁹ Before your pots can feel the thorns,\par\tab He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

¹⁰ The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:\par\tab 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:\par\tab Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.\par