The Book of Psalms

Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?(a)

(b)

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.(c)

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;(d)

(e)

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.(f)

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord .

Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

As 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.

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.(g)

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.(h)

(a)58:1 Al–taschith…: or, Destroy not

(b)58:1 Michtam: or, A golden Psalm

(d)58:4 like the poison: Heb. according to the likeness, etc

(e)58:4 adder: or, asp

(f)58:5 charming…: or, be the charmer never so cunning

(g)58:9 both…: Heb. as living as wrath

(h)58:11 a reward…: Heb. fruit of the, etc