Psalms 58
Theme: A prayer for God’s justice. When no justice can be found, rejoice in knowing that justice will triumph because there is a God who will judge with complete fairness.
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David.
1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? +
2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. +
3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. +
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; +
5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. +
7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. +
8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. +
9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. +
10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. +
11So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. +