Psalms 58
Prayer for the Punishment of the Wicked.
For the choir director; set to ▼▼ Lit Do Not DestroyAl-tashheth. A ▼▼ Possibly Epigrammatic Poem or Atonement PsalmMikhtam of David.
1 Do you indeed ▼▼ Another reading is speak righteousness in silence
speak righteousness, O ▼▼ Or mighty ones or judges
gods?Do you ejudge ▼
▼ Or uprightly the sons of men
uprightly, O sons of men?2No, in heart you gwork unrighteousness;
On earth you hweigh out the violence of your hands.
3The wicked are estranged ifrom the womb;
These who speak lies jgo astray from ▼
▼ Lit the womb
birth.4They have venom like the lvenom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
5So that it mdoes not hear the voice of ▼
▼ Or whisperers
,
ocharmers,Or a skillful caster of spells.
6O God, pshatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.
7Let them qflow away like water that runs off;
When he ▼
▼ Lit bends
,
saims his arrows, let them be as ▼▼ Lit though they were cut off
headless shafts.8 Let them be as a snail which ▼
▼ I.e. secretes slime
melts away as it goes along,Like the vmiscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.
9Before your wpots can feel the fire of thorns
He will xsweep them away with a whirlwind, the ▼
▼ Lit living
green and the burning alike.10The zrighteous will rejoice when he aasees the vengeance;
He will abwash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11And men will say, “Surely there is a ▼
▼ Lit fruit
,
adreward for the righteous;Surely there is a God who aejudges ▼
▼ Or in
on earth!”
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