Psalms 58
1Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when Saul sent and watched his house, in order to execute him.
2Rescue me from my enemies, my God, and free me from those who rise up against me.
3Rescue me from those who work iniquity, and save me from men of blood.
4For behold, they have seized my soul. The strong have rushed upon me.
5And it is neither my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord. I have run and gone directly, without iniquity.
6Rise up to meet me, and see: even you, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Reach out to visit all nations. Do not take pity on all those who work iniquity.
7They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city.
8Behold, they will speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: “For who has heard us?”
9And you, O Lord, will laugh at them. You will lead all the Gentiles to nothing.
10I will guard my strength toward you, for you are God, my supporter.
11My God, his mercy will precede me.
12God will oversee my enemies for me. Do not slay them, lest at times my people may forget them. Scatter them by your virtue. And depose them, O Lord, my protector,
13by the offense of their mouth and by the speech of their lips. And may they be caught in their arrogance. And, for their cursing and lying, they will be made known
14at the consummation, in the fury of the consummation, and so they will be no more. And they will know that God will rule over Jacob, even to the ends of the earth.
15They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city.
16They will be dispersed in order to gnaw, and truly, when they will not have been satisfied, they will murmur.
17But I will sing your strength, and I will extol your mercy, in the morning. For you have been my supporter and my refuge in the day of my tribulation.
18To you, my helper, I will sing psalms. For you are God, my supporter. My God is my mercy.
1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.