58:1 {To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.} Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
58:1 To the Chief Musician. Set to 'Do Not Destroy.' A Michtam of David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones? Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?

58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
58:2 No, in heart you work wickedness; You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

58:4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,

58:5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
58:5 Which will not heed the voice of charmers, Charming ever so skillfully.

58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
58:6 Break their teeth in their mouth, O God! Break out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!

58:7 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.
58:7 Let them flow away as waters which run continually; When he bends his bow, Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.

58:8 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.
58:8 Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes, Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.
58:9 Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, He shall take them away as with a whirlwind, As in His living and burning wrath.

58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

58:11 So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
58:11 So that men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; Surely He is God who judges in the earth."