Psalms 58

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¹For the end. Destroy not: by David for a memorial, when Saul sent, and watched his house to kill him.

¹Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

²Deliver me from mine enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me.

²Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

³Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

³The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

⁴For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither [is it] my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.

⁴Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

⁵Without iniquity I ran and directed [my course aright]: awake to help me, and behold.

⁵Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

⁶And thou, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw nigh to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. Pause.

⁶Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.

⁷They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city.

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.

⁸Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, [say they], has heard?

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.

⁹But thou, Lord, wilt laugh them to scorn; thou wilt utterly set at nought all the heathen.

⁹Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

¹⁰I will keep my strength, [looking] to thee; for thou, O God, art my helper.

¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

¹¹[As for] my God, his mercy shall go before me: my God will shew me [vengeance] on mine enemies.

¹¹So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.