Psalms 58

¹ Nevertheless - if you were truly pronouncing justice, You would judge with equity, O sons of humanity. ² Indeed, in heart you are contriving iniquity; With your hands you are meting out violence on earth. ³ From the womb, the wicked are estranged; From the belly, they stray who are speaking a lie. ⁴ Their venom is like the venom of a serpent, Like a deaf cobra that has contracted its ear, ⁵ That will not hearken to the sound of those intonating, Or of one charming with a wise charming. ⁶ O Elohim, demolish their teeth in their mouth; Wrench out the fangs of the sheltered lions, O Yahweh. ⁷ May they melt like waters going away to their place; May He position His arrows that they be snipped off; ⁸ Like a slug melting away as it goes along; Like the stillborn of a woman, they will fail to perceive the sun. ⁹ Ere their pots could detect the boxthorn fire, Like a thistle, like a prickly acanthus, He shall toss him away in a tempest. ¹⁰ The righteous one shall rejoice when he perceives the vengeance; He shall bathe his footsteps in the blood of the wicked one. ¹¹ Then mankind shall say, Yea, there is fruit for the righteous; Yea, there is an Elohim Who is judging in the earth!