| Chapter
58 |
| 1 | Do ye
indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of
men? |
| 2 | Yea, in heart ye
work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. |
| 3 | The wicked are estranged from the
womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. |
| 4 | Their poison is like the poison of a
serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; |
| 5 | Which will not hearken to the voice of
charmers, charming never so wisely. |
|
6 | Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great
teeth of the young lions, O LORD. |
|
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 | 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 | Before
your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind,
both living, and in his wrath. |
| 10
| The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash
his feet in the blood of the wicked. |
|
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. |
