Psalm 58
New King James Version

The Just Judgment of the Wicked

To the Chief Musician. Set to^[a]“Do Not Destroy.” A Michtam of David.

58 Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones?
Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?
²No, in heart you work wickedness;
You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

³^(A)The wicked are estranged from the womb;
They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
⁴^(B)Their poisonislike the poison of a serpent;
They arelike the deaf cobrathatstops its ear,
⁵Which will not^(C)heed the voice of charmers,
Charming ever so skillfully.

⁶^(D)Break^[b]their teeth in their mouth, O God!
Break out the fangs of the young lions, OLord!
⁷^(E)Let them flow away as waterswhichrun continually;
Whenhe bendshis bow,
Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.
⁸Let them belike a snail which melts away as it goes,
^(F)Likea stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

⁹Before your^(G)pots can feelthe burningthorns,
He shall take them away^(H)as with a whirlwind,
As in His living and burning wrath.
¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the^(I)vengeance;
^(J)He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
¹¹^(K)So that men will say,
“Surelythere isa reward for the righteous;
Surely He is God who^(L)judges in the earth.”