Psalms
58:1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly,
O ye sons of men?
58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in
the earth.
58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they
be born, speaking lies.
58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf
adder that stoppeth her ear;
58:5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so
wisely.
58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of
the young lions, O LORD.
58:7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his
bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
58:8 As 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.
58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a
whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash
his feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:
verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
