Psa 58 | LSB | STEP | For the choir director. Al-tashheth. Of David. A Mikhtam. Do you indeed speak righteousness, O gods? Do you judge with equity, O sons of men?

Psalms 58

Psalm 58

There Is a God Who Judges on Earth

For the choir director. ^{▼▼Lit Do Not Destroy}Al-tashheth. Of David. A ^{▼▼Possibly Epigrammatic Poem, Atonement Psalm}Mikhtam.

1 Do you indeed ^{▼▼Or speak righteousness in silence}speak righteousness, O ^{▼▼Or mighty ones, judges}gods?
Do you judge ^{▼▼Or uprightly the sons of men}with equity, O sons of men?
2 No, in heart you work unrighteousness;
On earth you ^{▼▼Lit make level}prepare a path for the violence of your hands.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak falsehood wander in error from ^{▼▼Lit stomach}birth.
4 They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
5 So that it does not hear the voice of ^{▼▼Or whisperers}charmers,
Or a skillful caster of spells.
6 O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh.
7 Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he ^{▼▼Lit bends}aims his arrows, let them be as ^{▼▼Lit though they were cut off}headless shafts.
8 Let them be as a snail which ^{▼▼Secretes slime}melts away as it goes along,
Like the miscarriages of a woman which never behold the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns
He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the living and the burning alike.
10 The righteous will be glad when he beholds the vengeance;
He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 And men will say, “Surely there is a ^{▼▼Lit fruit}reward for the righteous;
Surely there is a God who judges ^{▼▼Or in}on earth!”

Psalms 58

Psalm 58

There Is a God Who Judges on Earth

For the choir director. ▼▼Lit Do Not DestroyAl-tashheth. Of David. A ▼▼Possibly Epigrammatic Poem, Atonement PsalmMikhtam.

For the choir director. ^{▼▼Lit Do Not Destroy}Al-tashheth. Of David. A ^{▼▼Possibly Epigrammatic Poem, Atonement Psalm}Mikhtam.