Psalms 58
Prayer for the Punishment of the Wicked.
For the music 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, you ▼▼Or mighty ones; or judges
gods? Do you ejudge ▼
▼Or mankind fairly?
fairly, you sons of mankind? 2 No, in heart you gpractice injustice;
On earth you hclear a way for the violence of your hands.
3 The wicked have turned away ifrom the womb;
These who speak lies jgo astray from ▼
▼Lit the womb
birth. 4 They have venom like the lvenom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
5 So that it mdoes not hear the voice of ▼
▼Or whisperers
,
ocharmers, Or a skillful caster of spells.
6 God, pshatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, Lord.
7 May they qflow away like water that runs off;
When he ▼
▼Lit bends
,
saims his arrows, may they be as ▼▼Lit though they were cut off
headless shafts. 8 May they be like a snail which goes along in slime,
Like the umiscarriage of a woman that never sees the sun.
9 Before your vpots can feel the fire of thorns
He will wsweep them away with a whirlwind, the ▼
▼Lit living
green and the burning alike. 10 The yrighteous will rejoice when he zsees vengeance;
He will aawash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 And people will say, “There certainly is ▼
▼Lit fruit
,
aca reward for the righteous; There certainly is a God who adjudges on the earth!”
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