Thematic Bible
Psalm 58:1 (show verse)
Are ye, indeed, silent when righteousness, ye should speak? When, with equity, ye should judge, O ye sons of men?
Psalm 58:2 (show verse)
Aye! ye all do work, perversity, - Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence!
Psalm 58:3 (show verse)
Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
Psalm 58:4 (show verse)
Their poison, is like unto the poison of a serpent, Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth his ear;
Psalm 58:5 (show verse)
That will not hearken to the voice of whisperers, Though the wise one try to bind him with spells.
Psalm 58:6 (show verse)
O God! break away their teeth in their mouth, The biters of the young lions, knock thou out, O Yahweh!
Psalm 58:7 (show verse)
Let such men flow away like waters that disperse themselves: He prepareth his arrow, Like grass let them be cut down:
Psalm 58:8 (show verse)
Like a snail, which melteth away as it goeth, An untimely birth of a woman, which hath not seen the sun:
Psalm 58:9 (show verse)
Before your kettles can perceive the kindled bramble, Be he green or be he withered, he shall be swept away.
Psalm 58:10 (show verse)
The righteous man will rejoice when he hath seen an avenging, His feet, will he bathe in the blood of the lawless one: -
Psalm 58:11 (show verse)
So that a son of earth may say - Surely there is fruit for the righteous man! Surely there are gods who judge in the earth!