Psalms 58
1DO you indeed speak righteousness? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
2In heart, indeed, you are working iniquity in the land: your hands are weaving injustice.
3From the womb the wicked are in a state of alienation, they have gone astray from their birth—they spoke lies.
4They have a venom like that of a serpent—like that of a deaf adder which stoppeth its ears;
5which will not hearken to the voice of charmers; nor to the charm administered by the wise.
6God hath broken their teeth in their mouth: the Lord hath broken the lion’s grinders.
7They shall be despised like water passing by. He will bend His bow till they be weakened.
8Like melting wax they shall be dissolved. A fire fell and they saw not the sun.
9Before your bramble bush can make its prickles felt; it will devour you as it were alive, as with wrath.
10The righteous will rejoice when he seeth the punishment of the wicked; he will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11And man will say, Since there is indeed a reward for the righteous, there is a God who judgeth those on the earth.