58:1
58:2
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of
your hands in the earth.
58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as
soon as they be born, speaking lies.
58:4
Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are]
like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
58:5
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming
never so wisely.
58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the
great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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.
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.
58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them
away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.
58:10
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:
he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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.
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