1 To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 \\58:1\\To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
3 \\58:2\\Yes, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
4 \\58:3\\The wicked are estranged from their birth: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
5 \\58:4\\Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
6 \\58:5\\Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
7 \\58:6\\Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
8 \\58:7\\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.
9 \\58:8\\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.
10 \\58:9\\Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
11 \\58:10\\The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
12 \\58:11\\So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
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Today's Verse
And Jehovah will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; forasmuch as Jehovah delivered thee into my hand to-day, and I would not put forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed.
Verse Of The DayDavid asks God to break their strength like teeth in a lion's mouth so the righteous can say 'there is a reward for the righteous,' a vindication echoed at Psalms 67:4. The prayer for justice continues in Psalms 59.
