Psalm 58

1. 1

   Do you indeed decree righteousness, you rulers? *
   do you judge the peoples with equity?

2. 2

   No; you devise evil in your hearts, *
   and your hands deal out violence in the land.

3. 3

   The wicked are perverse from the womb; *
   liars go astray from their birth.

4. 4

   They are as venomous as a serpent, *
   they are like the deaf adder which stops its ears,

5. 5

   Which does not heed the voice of the charmer, *
   no matter how skillful his charming.

6. 6

   O God, break their teeth in their mouths; *
   pull the fangs of the young lions, O LORD.

7. 7

   Let them vanish like water that runs off; *
   let them wither like trodden grass.

8. 8

   Let them be like the snail that melts away, *
   like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.

9. 9

   Before they bear fruit, let them be cut down like a brier; *
   like thorns and thistles let them be swept away.

10. 10

    The righteous will be glad when they see the vengeance; *
    they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

11. 11

    And they will say, "Surely, there is a reward for the righteous; *
    surely, there is a God who rules in the earth."

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