For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial.

58:1 If ye do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men.

58:2 For ye work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.

58:3 Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.

58:4 Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

58:5 which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.

58:6 God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.

58:7 They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.

58:8 They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

58:9 Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.

58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

58:11 And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.

58:1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh 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.

58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

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

58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth 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.

58:8 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.

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

58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth 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.