Psalm 58 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. Michtam.

Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness?

Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

Nay, in heart ye work wickedness;

Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

The wicked are estranged from the womb:

They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:

They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,

Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers,

Charming never so wisely.

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:

Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

Let them melt away as water that runneth apace:

When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away,

Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

Before your pots can feel the thorns,

He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:

He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;

So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:

Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.