PSALM 58 (NIV)
- Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge uprightly among men?
- No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
- Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies.
- Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
- that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skifull the enchanter may be.
- Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; tear out, O Lord, the fangs of the lions!
- Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted.
- Like a slug melting away as it moves along, like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun.
- Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns - whether they be green or dry - the wicked will be swept away.
- The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
- They men will say, "Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth."
