Psalms
Psalms 58
For the end. Do not destroy. An inscription by David.
1 Do you truly speak righteousness? Do you judge uprightly, human beings?
2 No, you practice lawlessness in your hearts on the earth; your hands weave injustice together.
3 Sinners became estranged from the womb; they wandered from the belly and spoke lies.
4 Their rage is like a snake’s, like a deaf asp that closes its ears
5 and will not listen to the voice of charmers or to a spell skillfully prepared by a wise person.
6 God shattered their teeth in their mouths; the Lord crushed the lions’ molars.
7 They will be treated as nothing, like water flowing away. He will draw his bow until they become weak.
8 They will be destroyed like melting wax. Fire fell, and they did not see the sun.
9 Before your thorns recognize the buckthorn, he will swallow you alive, as in wrath.
10 The righteous will rejoice when he sees vengeance on the ungodly; he will wash his hands in the sinner’s blood.
11 A person will say, “There really is fruit for the righteous; there really is a God judging them on the earth.”