Psalm 58

¹Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones?

Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

²No, in your heart you plot injustice.

You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

³The wicked go astray from the womb.

They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

⁴Their poison is like the poison of a snake,

like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

⁵which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers,

no matter how skilful the charmer may be.

⁶Break their teeth, God, in their mouth.

Break out the great teeth of the young lions, LORD.

⁷Let them vanish like water that flows away.

When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

⁸Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away,

like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

⁹Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns,

he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance.

He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

¹¹so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous.

Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”