1 掌权者啊！你们真的讲公义吗*本句或译："你们默然不语，真的讲公义吗"？

你们真的按照正直审判世人吗？

2 不是的，你们心中策划奸恶；

你们的手在地上施行强暴*本句原文作"你们在地上称出你们手中的强暴"。

3 恶人一出母胎，就走上歧路；

他们一离母腹，就走偏了路，常说谎话。

4 他们的毒气好象蛇的毒气，

又像耳朵塞住的聋虺，

5 不听行法术者的声音，

就是极灵的咒语，也是无效。

6 　神啊！求你敲掉他们口中的牙齿；

耶和华啊！求你打断少壮狮子的颚骨。

7 愿他们像流水般消逝；

愿他们射箭的时候，箭头折断*本句原文意义不甚明确。

8 愿他们像蜗牛般蠕行消融，

如同妇人流产未见天日的胎儿。

9 你们用荆棘烧火，锅还未热，

他要用旋风把烧着的和未烧着的一起刮去。

10 义人看见仇敌遭报就欢喜；

他要在恶人的血中洗自己的脚。

11 因此，人必说："义人果然有善报；

在世上确有一位施行审判的　神。"

To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David.

1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?*58.1 Al-taschith…: or, Destroy not*58.1 Michtam: or, A golden Psalm

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.*58.3 as soon…: Heb. from the belly

4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;*58.4 like the poison: Heb. according to the likeness, etc*58.4 adder: or, asp

5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.*58.5 charming…: or, be the charmer never so cunning

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.*58.9 both…: Heb. as living as 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.*58.11 a reward…: Heb. fruit of the, etc