# Psalm 58 (New King James Version)
The Just Judgment of the Wicked

##### 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."