Parallel Bible results for "psalm 58:1-9"

Psalms 58:1-9

1 Do you rulers really give fair verdicts? Do you judge Adam's descendants fairly?

1 Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity?

2 No, you invent new crimes on earth, and your hands spread violence.

2 No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.

3 [Even] inside the womb wicked people are strangers [to God]. From their birth liars go astray.

3 Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.

4 They have poisonous venom like snakes. They are like a deaf cobra that shuts its ears

4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,

5 so that it cannot hear the voice of a snake charmer or of anyone trained to cast spells.

5 that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.

6 O God, knock the teeth out of their mouths. Break the young lions' teeth, O LORD.

6 Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions!

7 Let them disappear like water that drains away. When they aim their bows, let their arrows miss the target.

7 Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall short.

8 Let them become like a snail that leaves behind a slimy trail or like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.

8 May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along, like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.

9 Let [God] sweep them away faster than a cooking pot is heated by burning twigs.

9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns— whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.