Psalm 58 — Compared

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.

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

²Nay, 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 are born, speaking lies.

⁴Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: `They are' like 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 Jehovah.

⁷Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

⁸`Let them be' as a snail which melteth and passeth away, `Like' the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

⁹Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will 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. Psalm 59 For the Chief Musician; `set to' Al-tashheth. `A Psalm' of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.