To the chief Musician, Altaschith,(Destroy Not)
Michtam of David
Psalms 58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Psalms 58:4
Their 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}
Psalms 58:5
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. {charming...: or, be the charmer never so cunning}
Psalms 58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
Psalms 58:7
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.
Psalms 58:8
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.
Psalms 58:9
Before 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}
Psalms 58:10
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 58:11
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. {a reward...: Heb. fruit of the, etc}
(KJV)