Psalm 58

¹Do you really speak what is right, you gods?

Do you really judge humans fairly?

²No: in your hearts you plan injustice;

your hands do violence on the earth.

³The wicked backslide from the womb;

liars go astray from birth.

⁴Their venom is like a snake’s venom—

like a deaf cobra’s—one that shuts its ears

⁶God, break their teeth out of their mouths!

Tear out the lions’ jawbones, LORD !

⁷Let them dissolve like water flowing away.

When they bend the bow,

let their arrows be like headless shafts.

⁸Like the snail that dissolves into slime,

like a woman’s stillborn child,

let them never see the sun.

⁹Before your pots feel the thorns,

whether green or burned up,

God will sweep them away!

¹⁰But the righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done,

when they wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.

¹¹Then it will be said:

“Yes, there is a reward for the righteous!

Yes, there is a God who judges people on the earth.”