Psalms 58 (KJV)

¹To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? ^{Altaschith: or, Destroy not, A golden Psalm of David}

²Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

³The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. ^{as soon: Heb. from the belly}

⁴Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; ^{like the poison: Heb. according to the likeness, etc} ^{adder: or, asp}

⁵Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. ^{charming: or, be the charmer never so cunning}

⁶Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

⁷Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

⁸As 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.

⁹Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. ^{both: Heb. as living as wrath}

¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

¹¹So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. ^{a reward: Heb. fruit of the, etc}