Psalm 58

¹Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

²Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out 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 arelike the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

⁵Which hearkeneth not 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 water that runneth apace: when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

⁸Let them beas a snail which melteth and passeth away: likethe untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

⁹Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

¹¹So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.