TEHILLIM 58

1 (For the one directing. Set to Do Not Destroy. Mikhtam Dovid)

2 Do ye indeed decree tzedek, O elim (g-ds, g-dlike judges)?*58:2 Ex 22:28 [27]

Do ye judge uprightly the Bnei Adam?

3 No, in lev (heart) ye work wickedness;

ye weigh out the chamas (violence) of your hands in Ha’Aretz.

4 The resha’im are perverted from the rekhem (womb);

gone astray from birth are they, speaking kazav (lie, falsehood).

5 Their venom is like the venom of a nachash;

they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth its ear;

6 That it may not pay heed to the voice of charmers,

casting spells ever so cunningly.

7 Break their teeth, O Elohim, in their mouth;

tear out the fangs of the young lions, Hashem.

8 Let them melt away like draining mayim;

when he bendeth his bow to shoot his khitzim (arrows), let them be crumbled to pieces.

9 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away;

like the stillborn child of an isha, that they may not see the shemesh.

10 Before your sirot (pots) can feel the burning thorns,

may He with a whirlwind blow them away, both green and dry alike.

11 The tzaddik shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance;

he shall wash feet in the dahm harasha.

12 So that adam shall say, Verily there is a reward for the tzaddik;

verily yesh Elohim Shofetim ba’aretz (there is a G-d that judgeth in the earth).