
# Chapter 58
1. Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones?
Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?

2. No, in heart you work wickedness;
You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

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

4. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent;
They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,

5. Which will not heed the voice of charmers,
Charming ever so skillfully.

6. Break their teeth in their mouth, O God!
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!

7. Let them flow away as waters which run continually;
When he bends his bow,
Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.

8. Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,
Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

9. Before your pots can feel the burning thorns,
He shall take them away as with a whirlwind,
As in His living and burning wrath.

10. The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

11. So that men will say,
"Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
Surely He is God who judges in the earth."


