Psalms 58
Psalm 58
There Is a God Who Judges on Earth
For the choir director. ▼▼Lit Do Not DestroyAl-tashheth. Of David. A ▼▼Possibly Epigrammatic Poem, Atonement PsalmMikhtam.
1Do you indeed ▼▼Or speak righteousness in silence
speak righteousness, O ▼▼Or mighty ones, judges
gods?Do you judge ▼
▼Or uprightly the sons of men
with equity, O sons of men?2No, in heart you work unrighteousness;
On earth you ▼
▼Lit make level
prepare a path for the violence of your hands.3The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak falsehood wander in error from ▼
▼Lit stomach
birth.4They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
5So that it does not hear the voice of ▼
▼Or whisperers
charmers,Or a skillful caster of spells.
6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh.
7Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he ▼
▼Lit bends
aims his arrows, let them be as ▼▼Lit though they were cut off
headless shafts.8 Let them be as a snail which ▼
▼Secretes slime
melts away as it goes along,Like the miscarriages of a woman which never behold the sun.
9Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns
He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the living and the burning alike.
10The righteous will be glad when he beholds the vengeance;
He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11And men will say, “Surely there is a ▼
▼Lit fruit
reward for the righteous;Surely there is a God who judges ▼
▼Or in
on earth!”
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