Psalms - Chapter 58 - New International Version
- Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity?
- No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
- Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.
- Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
- that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.
- Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions!
- Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall short.
- May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along, like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.
- Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns — whether they be green or dry —the wicked will be swept away. [^
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- The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.
- Then people will say, "Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth."