Psalm 58
[Do you indeed decree what is just, O rulers
: do you with uprightness judge the children of men?
No, you work in the land with evil heart
: you look on the violence that your hands have wrought.
The wicked are estranged, even from the womb
: they are liars that go astray from their birth.
They are venomous with the venom of serpents
: like the deaf asp that stops its ears,
And will not heed the voice of the charmers
: though the binder of spells be skilful.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths
: shatter the jaws of the young lions, O Lord.
Let them dissolve, and drain away like water
: let them be trodden down, let them wither like grass,
Like a woman’s miscarriage that melts and passes away
: like an abortive birth that has not seen the sun.
Before they know it, let them be cut down like thorns
: like brambles which a man sweeps angrily aside.
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance
: he will wash his feet in the blood of the ungodly.
And men will say ‘There is reward for the righteous
: there is indeed a God who judges on earth.’]