1 {To the chief Musician. ‘Destroy not.’ Of David. Michtam.} Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men? DBY — Psalm 58:1
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. DBY — Psalm 58:2
3 The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies. DBY — Psalm 58:3
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear; DBY — Psalm 58:4
5 Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely. DBY — Psalm 58:5
6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah. DBY — Psalm 58:6
7 Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted: DBY — Psalm 58:7
8 Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun. DBY — Psalm 58:8
9 Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, they shall be whirled away. DBY — Psalm 58:9
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked: DBY — Psalm 58:10
11 And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. DBY — Psalm 58:11
12 DBY — Psalm 58:12