Psalm 58 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Prayer for the Punishment of the Wicked.

Psa 58:1For the choir director; set to [fn]Al-tashheth. A [fn]Mikhtam of David.
Do you indeed [fn]speak righteousness, O [fn]gods?
Do you judge [fn]uprightly, O sons of men?

Psa 58:2

Psa 58:2No, in heart you work unrighteousness;
On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.

Psa 58:3

Psa 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak lies go astray from [fn]birth.

Psa 58:4

Psa 58:4They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

Psa 58:5

Psa 58:5So that it does not hear the voice of [fn]charmers,
Or a skillful caster of spells.

Psa 58:6

Psa 58:6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD.

Psa 58:7

Psa 58:7Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he [fn]aims his arrows, let them be as [fn]headless shafts.

Psa 58:8

Psa 58:8Let them be as a snail which [fn]melts away as it goes along,
Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.

Psa 58:9

Psa 58:9Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns
He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the [fn]green and the burning alike.

Psa 58:10

Psa 58:10The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Psa 58:11

Psa 58:11And men will say, “Surely there is a [fn]reward for the righteous;
Surely there is a God who judges [fn]on earth!”

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NASB95 Footnotes

(58:1)

Literally: Do Not Destroy

(58:1)

Possibly Epigrammatic Poem or Atonement Psalm

(58:1)

Another reading is speak righteousness in silence

(58:1)

Or, mighty ones or judges

(58:1)

Or, uprightly the sons of men

(58:3)

Literally: the womb

(58:5)

Or, whisperers

(58:7)

Literally: bends

(58:7)

Literally: though they were cut off

(58:8)

I.e. secretes slime

(58:9)

Literally: living

(58:11)

Literally: fruit

(58:11)

Or, in

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Psalm 58 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Prayer for the Punishment of the Wicked.

NASB95 Footnotes

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