Psalms — Chapter 58
David reproves wicked judges—They go astray and speak lies.
1
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye ajudge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
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 ateeth 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 ablood of the wicked.