Psalms 58 For the conclusion. Destroy not. By David, for a monumental inscription. Do you indeed speak righteousness? Do you judge uprightly, sons of men?

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ For the conclusion. Destroy not. By David, for a monumental inscription. Do you indeed speak righteousness? Do you judge uprightly, sons of men? ² In heart, indeed, you are working iniquity in the land: your hands are weaving injustice. ³ From the womb the wicked are in a state of alienation, they have gone astray from their birth; they spoke lies. ⁴ They have a venom like that of a serpent; like that of a deaf adder which stoppeth its ears; ⁵ which will not hearken to the voice of charmers; nor to the charm administered by the wise. ⁶ God hath broken their teeth in their mouth: the Lord hath broken the lion's grinders. ⁷ They shall be despised like water passing by. He will bend his bow till they be weakened. ⁸ Like melting wax they shall be dissolved. A fire fell and they saw not the sun. ⁹ Before your bramble bush can make its prickles felt; it will devour you as it were alive, as with wrath. ¹⁰ The righteous will rejoice when he seeth the punishment of the wicked; he will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner. ¹¹ And man will say, Since there is indeed a reward for the righteous, there is a God who judgeth those on the earth.