The Book of Psalms

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- Kapitel 58 -

God judges the earth

When you rulers speak, you never say what is right; you people never justly decide disputes.

No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong, and you commit violent crimes everywhere in this land of Israel.

Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born.

What wicked people say injures people like the venom of a snake. They refuse to listen to commands; it is as though they were deaf cobras.

As a result, like a snake that does not respond when a charmer plays a flute or when someone sings magic songs, they do not pay attention when others rebuke them.

God, as for these enemies who want to attack me like young lions, break the teeth in their mouths!

Cause them to disappear as water disappears in dry ground! Cause the arrows that they shoot to have no heads!

Cause them to become like snails that disappear in the slime; cause them to be like a baby that is born dead!

I hope that you will get rid of them as fast as thornbushes are blown away after they are cut.

People who do what is right will rejoice when they see God punish the wicked people; they will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.

Then people will say, “It is true that there is a reward for righteous people; and there is indeed a God who judges people justly here on the earth!”

God judges the earth

Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

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

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, LORD.

Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

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

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”