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Psalms 58 (ASV)

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¹ For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. A miktam. Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? ² Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. ³ The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. ⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, ⁵ Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely. ⁶ Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah. ⁷ Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off. ⁸ Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun. ⁹ Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike. ¹⁰ The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; ¹¹ So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.