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Psalms 58
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
1 Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?
1To the Overseer. --`Destroy not.' --A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?
2The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
2Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
3The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
3The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
4Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;
4Their poison <FI>is<Fi> as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
5Who will not be moved by the voice of the wonder-worker, however great are his powers.
5Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
6O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.
6O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
7Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.
7They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
8Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
8As a snail that melteth he goeth on, <FI>As<Fi> an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
9Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
9Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.