Psalms 58 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 How is it that by remaining silent you can speak righteously? How can you judge people fairly? Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly? For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam. Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity?
2 As a matter of fact, in your heart you plan iniquities! In the land your hands are violent! No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth. No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
3 The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth. The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies. Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.
4 Their venom is like a poisonous snake; even like a deaf serpent that shuts its ears, They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear, Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
5 refusing to hear the voice of the snake charmer, the cunning enchanter. so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter. that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.
6 God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; LORD, break the fangs of the young lions! O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD! Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions!
7 May they flow away like rain water that runs off, may they become like someone who shoots broken arrows. Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted. Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall short.
8 May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman's stillborn baby, who never saw the sun. Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun. May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along, like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.
9 Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns— whether green or ablaze— wrath will sweep them away like a storm. Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away! Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns— whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.
10 The righteous person will rejoice when he sees your vengeance; when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked. The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked. The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 A person will say, |Certainly, the righteous are rewarded; certainly there is a God who judges the earth.| Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.” Then people will say, “Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”
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