Psalms · King James Version
Psalm 58
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David.
1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?ab
2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.c
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;de
5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.f
6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8As 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.
9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.g
10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.h
Translators’ margin notes (1611)
- a v. 1 Al-taschith…: or, Destroy not
- b v. 1 Michtam: or, A golden Psalm
- c v. 3 as soon…: Heb. from the belly
- d v. 4 like the poison: Heb. according to the likeness, etc
- e v. 4 adder: or, asp
- f v. 5 charming…: or, be the charmer never so cunning
- g v. 9 both…: Heb. as living as wrath
- h v. 11 a reward…: Heb. fruit of the, etc