Psalms 58

Listen to Psalms 58
1 Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?[a] Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
2 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands 1deal out violence on earth.
3 The wicked are 2estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
4 3They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
5 so that it 4does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
6 O God, 5break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!
7 Let them 6vanish like water that runs away; when he 7aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
8 Let them be like the snail 8that dissolves into slime, like 9the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9 Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of 10thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he 11sweep them away![b]
10 12The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will 13bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Mankind will say, "Surely there is 14a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who 15judges on earth."

Cross References 15

  • 1. [Psalms 94:20]
  • 2. Psalms 51:5; Isaiah 48:8
  • 3. Psalms 140:3; [Deuteronomy 32:33]
  • 4. Jeremiah 8:17
  • 5. Psalms 3:7; Job 4:10; Job 29:17
  • 6. Psalms 112:10; Joshua 7:5
  • 7. Psalms 64:3
  • 8. [See ver. 7 above]
  • 9. See Job 3:16
  • 10. Psalms 118:12; Ecclesiastes 7:6
  • 11. [Job 27:21; See Proverbs 10:25]
  • 12. Deuteronomy 32:43; See Job 22:19
  • 13. Psalms 68:23
  • 14. Isaiah 3:10
  • 15. Psalms 67:4; Psalms 94:2; Genesis 18:25; Job 19:29; Ecclesiastes 12:14

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or mighty lords (by revocalization; Hebrew in silence)
  • [b]. The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain

Psalms 58 Commentaries

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