Psalms 58

1You gods, do you really speak what is right? Do you judge human beings fairly? 2No, in your hearts you plan wrong, and on earth your hands deal out violence by weight. 3From the womb the wicked have turned aside; from birth those who tell lies have wandered off. 4Their poison is like a snake’s poison, like a cobra that is deaf and stops up its ear, 5so that it does not hear the voice of the charmers, however skilled the one who weaves the spell. 6God, smash the teeth in their mouths; LORD, rip out the young lions’ fangs! 7Let them drain away like water running off; when they take aim with their arrows, let the shafts be snapped. 8May they be like a snail that turns to slime as it moves, like a baby born dead, who has not looked on the sun. 9Sooner than your pots can sense the thorn fire, green or blazing, he will sweep it all away in a storm. 10The righteous will be glad when they see justice repaid; they will bathe their feet in the wicked’s blood. 11Then people will say, “Yes, the righteous do receive a reward; yes, a God does judge on the earth.”