58 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.