Psalm 58:1-11
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There is a God who judges the earth
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Prayer to punish the wicked (6-8)
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To the director; set to “Do Not Bring to Ruin.” Of David. Mikʹtam.*
58 Can you speak about righteousness when you are silent?+
Can you judge in uprightness, you sons of men?+
2 Instead, you devise unrighteousness in your heart,+And your hands dispense violence in the land.+
3 The wicked go astray* from birth;*They are wayward, liars from the time they are born.
4 Their venom is like the venom of serpents;+They are deaf like the cobra that stops up its ear.
5 It will not listen to the voice of charmers,No matter how skillful their spells.
6 O God, knock the teeth out of their mouth!
Break the jaws of these lions,* O Jehovah!
7 May they disappear like waters that drain away.
May He bend his bow and make them fall by his arrows.
8 May they be like a snail that melts away as it moves along;Like a woman’s stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9 Before your cooking pots feel the heat of the bramble,He will sweep away both the moist and the burning twig, as in a storm wind.+
10 The righteous one will rejoice because he has seen the vengeance;+His feet will be drenched with the blood of the wicked.+
11 Then men will say: “Surely there is a reward for the righteous.+
There is indeed a God who judges in the earth.”+
