Psalms 58

1Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an inscription of a title, when Saul sent and watched his house to kill him.

1 Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?

2Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that rise up against me.

2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

3Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

3 The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

4For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:

4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;

5Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps.

5 Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely.

6Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy on all them that work iniquity.

6 OGod, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

7They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.

7 Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:

8Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us?

8 Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.

9But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing.

9 Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, — they shall be whirled away.

10I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector:

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:

11My God, his mercy shall prevent me.

11 And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is aGod that judgeth in the earth.

12God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any time my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my protector:

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13For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of,

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14When they are consumed: when they are consumed by thy wrath, and they shall be no more. And they shall know that God will rule Jacob, and all the ends of the earth.

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15They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.

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16They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.

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17But I will sing thy strength: and will extol thy mercy in the morning. For thou art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.

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18Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for thou art God my defence: my God my mercy.

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