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The Holy Bible

King James Version

The Book of Psalms

Psalm 58

  

A Cry Against Injustice

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.

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

2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness;
ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. 3The wicked are estranged from the womb:
they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:
they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers,
charming never so wisely.   6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:
break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord. 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. 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.   9 Before your pots can feel the thorns,
he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:
he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 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.