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Psalm 58 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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PSALM 58
The Just Judgment of the Wicked
To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not Destroy.”[fn] A Michtam of David.
1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones?
​​Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?
2 ​​No, in heart you work wickedness;
​​You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
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3 ​​The wicked are estranged from the womb;
​​They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
4 ​​Their poison is like the poison of a serpent;
​​They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,
5 ​​Which will not heed the voice of charmers,
​​Charming ever so skillfully.
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6 ​​Break their teeth in their mouth, O God!
​​Break out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!
7 ​​Let them flow away as waters which run continually;
​​When he bends his bow,
​​Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.
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.
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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.
10 ​​The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
​​He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
11 ​​So that men will say,
​​“Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
​​Surely He is God who judges in the earth.”
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Hebrew Al Tashcheth
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