0 SAB Psalms 58

Psalms

CHAPTER 58

He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked
58:1-11

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.

1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

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

3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

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

5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

Wicked people are wicked before they are born.

They are born speaking lies. [1]

6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

Break their teeth, Oh God, in their mouth. [2]

7 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.

Let them be cut into pieces.

8As 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.

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

Let them die, like a snail melts. [3]

Let them be aborted before they are born. [4]

10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

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

Righteous people will rejoice when they see the vengeance.

They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked. [5]

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