Psalm 58 - ESV Online - Literal Word

PSALM 58

God Who Judges the Earth

To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David.
58:1

Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?

Do you judge the children of man uprightly? 2

No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;

your hands deal out violence on earth.
3

The wicked are estranged from the womb;

they go astray from birth, speaking lies. 4

They have venom like the venom of a serpent,

like the deaf adder that stops its ear, 5

so that it does not hear the voice of charmers

or of the cunning enchanter.
6

O God, break the teeth in their mouths;

tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord! 7

Let them vanish like water that runs away;

when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted. 8

Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime,

like the stillborn child who never sees the sun. 9

Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns,

whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
10

The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;

he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11

Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;

surely there is a God who judges on earth.”

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