Psalm 58

¹ Do ye O congregation,

indeed speak righteousness?

and O ye sons of earthly men,

do ye judge uprightness?

² Yea, you in heart will working be

injur’ous wickedness;

and in the land you will weigh out

your hands violentness.

³ The wicked are estranged from

the womb, they go astray

as soon as ever they are born;

uttering lies are they.

⁴ Their poison’s like serpent’s poison:

they like deaf asp, her ear

⁵ that stops. Though charmer wisely charm,

his voice she will not hear.

⁶ Within their mouth do thou their teeth

break out, O God, most strong,

do thou Jehovah, the great teeth

break of the lions’ young.

⁷ As waters let them melt away,

that run continually:

and when he bends his shafts, let them

as cut asunder be.

⁸ Like to a snail that melts, so let

each of them pass away;

like t’ a woman’s untimely birth

see sun that ne’er they may.

⁹ Before your pots can feel the thorns,

take them away shall he,

as with a whirlwind both living,

and in his jealousy.

¹⁰ The righteous will rejoice when as

the vengeance he doth see:

his feet wash shall he in the blood

of them that wicked be.

¹¹ So that a man shall say, surely

for righteous there is fruit:

sure there’s a God that in the earth

judgment doth execute.