King James VersionPsalms58

Psalms

1 Do ye in­deed speak righ­teous­ness, O con­gre­ga­tion? do ye judge up­right­ly, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wicked­ness; ye weigh the vi­o­lence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are es­tranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be 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 will not hear­ken 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 LORD.
7 Let them melt away as wa­ters which run con­tin­u­al­ly: when he ben­deth his bow to shoot his ar­rows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As 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.
9 Be­fore your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirl­wind, both liv­ing, and in his wrath.
10 The righ­teous shall re­joice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Ver­i­ly there is a re­ward for the righ­teous: ver­i­ly he is a God that jud­geth in the earth.