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Prayer for the Punishment of the Wicked.

For the music director; set to [a]Al-tashheth. A [b]Mikhtam of David.

58 
Do you indeed [c]speak righteousness, you [d]gods?

Do you judge [e]fairly, you sons of mankind?

2 No, in heart you practice injustice;

On earth you clear a way for the violence of your hands.

3 The wicked have turned away from the womb;

These who speak lies go astray from [f]birth.

4 They have venom like the venom of a serpent;

Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

5 So that it does not hear the voice of [g]charmers,

Or a skillful caster of spells.

6 God, shatter their teeth in their mouth;

Break out the fangs of the young lions, Lord.

7 May they flow away like water that runs off;

When he [h]aims his arrows, may they be as [i]headless shafts.

8 May they be like a snail which goes along in slime,

Like the miscarriage of a woman that never sees the sun.

9 Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns

He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the [j]green and the burning alike.

10 The righteous will rejoice when he sees vengeance;

He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

11 And people will say, “There certainly is [k]a reward for the righteous;

There certainly is a God who judges on the earth!”

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 58 Title Lit Do Not Destroy
  2. Psalm 58 Title Possibly Epigrammatic Poem or Atonement Psalm
  3. Psalm 58:1 Another reading is speak righteousness in silence
  4. Psalm 58:1 Or mighty ones; or judges
  5. Psalm 58:1 Or mankind fairly?
  6. Psalm 58:3 Lit the womb
  7. Psalm 58:5 Or whisperers
  8. Psalm 58:7 Lit bends
  9. Psalm 58:7 Lit though they were cut off
  10. Psalm 58:9 Lit living
  11. Psalm 58:11 Lit fruit