Psalm 58

1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
57:1 In finem, ne disperdas. David in tituli inscriptionem.
2 Si vere utique justitiam loquimini,
recta judicate, filii hominum.
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 Etenim in corde iniquitates operamini;
in terra injustitias manus vestræ concinnant.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Alienati sunt peccatores a vulva;
erraverunt ab utero:
locuti sunt falsa.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5 Furor illis secundum similitudinem serpentis,
sicut aspidis surdæ et obturantis aures suas,
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 quæ non exaudiet vocem incantantium,
et venefici incantantis sapienter.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
7 Deus conteret dentes eorum in ore ipsorum;
molas leonum confringet Dominus.
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.
8 Ad nihilum devenient tamquam aqua decurrens;
intendit arcum suum donec infirmentur.
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.
9 Sicut cera quæ fluit auferentur;
supercecidit ignis, et non viderunt solem.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10 Priusquam intelligerent spinæ vestræ rhamnum,
sicut viventes sic in ira absorbet eos.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Lætabitur justus cum viderit vindictam;
manus suas lavabit in sanguine peccatoris.
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.
12 Et dicet homo: Si utique est fructus justo,
utique est Deus judicans eos in terra.
Psalms 57
Psalms 59
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