Psalm 58

1 To the Overseer. — ‘Destroy not.’ — A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?YLT — Psalm 58:1

2 Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.YLT — Psalm 58:2

3 The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.YLT — Psalm 58:3

4 Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,YLT — Psalm 58:4

5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.YLT — Psalm 58:5

6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.YLT — Psalm 58:6

7 They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.YLT — Psalm 58:7

8 As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.YLT — Psalm 58:8

9 Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.YLT — Psalm 58:9

10 The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.YLT — Psalm 58:10

11 And man saith: ‘Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!’YLT — Psalm 58:11