To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David.
DO ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
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 teeth 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 blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

 

1To the chiefe musician Al-taschith, Michtam of Dauid. Doe yee indeed speake righteousnesse, O congregation? doe ye iudge vprightly, O ye sonnes of men?

2Yea, in heart you worke wickednesse; you waigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

3The wicked are estranged from the wombe, they goe astray as soone as they be borne, speaking lies.

4Their poison is like the poyson of a serpent; they are like the deafe adder that stoppeth her eare:

5Which will not hearken to the voyce of charmers, charming neuer so wisely.

6Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouth: breake out the great teeth of the young lyons, O Lord.

7Let them melt away as waters, which runne continually: When he bendeth his bow to shoote his arrowes, let them be as cut in pieces.

8As a snaile which melteth, let euery one of them passe away: like the vntimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sunne.

9Before your pots can feele the thornes, he shall take them away as with a whirlewind, both liuing, and in his wrath.

10The righteous shall reioyce when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.

11So that a man shall say, Uerily there is a reward for the righteous: verily hee is a God that iudgeth in the earth.

II == Ps 94:20 ; Isa 10:1

 

 

 

 

 

III == Ps 51:5 ; Isa 48:8

IV == Ps 140:3 ; Eccl 10:11 ; Jer 8:17

 

VI == Job 4:10 ; Ps 3:7

 

VII == Josh 7:5 ; Ps 112:10

 

 

VIII == Job 3:16 ; Eccl 6:3

 

IX == Prov 10:25

 

X == Ps 52:6 ; 64:10 ; 68:23 ; 107:42

 

XI == Ps 67:4 ; 92:15 ; 96:13 ; 98:9 ; Isa 3:10

 

 

1 For the leader. Do not destroy. A miktam of David.

2 Do you indeed pronounce justice, O gods; do you judge fairly you children of Adam?

3 No, you freely engage in crime; your hands dispense violence to the earth.

4 The wicked have been corrupt since birth; liars from the womb, they have gone astray.

5 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a serpent stopping its ears,

6 So as not to hear the voice of the charmer or the enchanter with cunning spells.

7 O God, smash the teeth in their mouths; break the fangs of these lions, LORD!

8 Make them vanish like water flowing away; trodden down, let them wither like grass.

9 Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away, like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.

10 Suddenly, like brambles or thistles, have the whirlwind snatch them away.

11 Then the just shall rejoice to see the vengeance and bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

12 Then people will say: “Truly there is a reward for the just; there is a God who is judge on earth!”

DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED PSALM 58 WHAT DAVID SAID IN HIS TIME IS STILL TRUE TODAY. DAVID COMPLAINED MUCH ABOUT THE PREVALENCE OF WICKEDNESS. THEIR DAY OF RETRIBUTION IS SURE. HE REPEATED OVER AND OVER THAT IT DOES NOT PAY.

Verses 1-5. In this Psalm David renounces unjust judges.

 

 

 

Verses 6-9 David calls upon God to bring swift destruction upon them.

 

 

 

Verses 10,11 David encourages the righteous that they will be rewarded and God will judge the earth, including the unjust judges.