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Themes in Psalm 58

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Themes in Psalm 58

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.} Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

Lions » Greatness of its teeth alluded to

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.

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.

Reptiles » Mentioned in scripture » Snail
Snail » Perishable

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Anger of God » Is righteous
Blood » Illustrative » (washing the feet in,) of victories
Blood » Figurative » Of victories
Rejoice » Who rejoices

So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Anger of God » Is righteous
God » Impartiality of » Judge, at the great day
Judge » God as
Rejoice » Who rejoices
the future » The judge, at the great day » God as