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Psalms 58
KJV
King James Version · 1611
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye 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?
2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
2Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
3The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
4Their poison <FI>is<Fi> as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
5Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
6O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
7They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may 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 your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
9Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.