Psalms 58
For the music leader. Do not destroy. A psalm of David, a miktam.Perhaps inscription
1Do you really speak what is right, you gods? Do you really judge humans fairly?2No: in your hearts you plan injustice; your hands do violence on the earth.
3The wicked backslide from the womb; liars go astray from birth.
4Their venom is like a snake’s venom— like a deaf cobra’s—one that shuts its ears
5so it can’t hear the snake charmer’s voice or the spells of a skillful enchanter.
6God, break their teeth out of their mouths! Tear out the lions’ jawbones, LORD!
7Let them dissolve like water flowing away. When they bend the bow, let their arrows be like headless shafts.
8Like the snail that dissolves into slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, let them never see the sun.
9Before your pots feel the thorns, whether green or burned up, God will sweep them away!
10But the righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done, when they wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
11Then it will be said: “Yes, there is a reward for the righteous!” “Yes, there is a God who judges people on the earth.”