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.

Psalms 58

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.