Psalms, 58

To the director. “Do not bring to ruin.” Of David. Mikʹtam.^*1

¹ [In YOUR] silence can YOU really speak about righteousness itself? Can YOU judge in uprightness itself, O YOU sons of men?^*1

² How much, rather, do YOU with the heart practice outright unrighteousness in the earth, [And] prepare the road for the very violence of YOUR hands!

³ The wicked ones have been perverts from the womb; They have wandered about from the belly onward; They are speaking lies.

⁴ The venom of theirs is like the venom of the serpent, Deaf like the cobra that stops up its ear,

⁵ That will not listen to the voice of charmers, Though someone wise is binding with spells.^*1

⁶ O God, knock out their teeth in their mouth. Break down the very jawbones of maned young lions, O Jehovah.

⁷ May they dissolve as into waters that go their way; May he bend [the bow for] his arrows as they collapse.

⁸ Like a snail melting away he walks;^*1 Like a miscarriage of a woman they will certainly not behold the sun.

⁹ Before YOUR pots feel the [kindled] bramble, The live green as well as the burning, he will carry them off as a stormy wind.

¹⁰ The righteous one will rejoice because he has beheld the vengeance. His steps he will bathe in the blood of the wicked one.

¹¹ And mankind will say: “Surely there is fruitage for the righteous one. Surely there exists a God that is judging^*1 in the earth.”