58:1 For the leader. Set to “Do Not Destroy.” By David, a mikhtam:
58:2 [Rulers,] does your silence really speak justice? Are you judging people fairly?
58:3 [No!] In your hearts you devise wrongs, your hands dispense violence in the land.
58:4 From the womb, the wicked are estranged, liars on the wrong path since birth.
58:5 Their venom is like snake’s venom; they are like a serpent that stops its ears,
58:6 so as not to hear the voice of the charmer, no matter how well he plays.
58:7 God, break their teeth in their mouth! Shatter the fangs of these lions, Adonai!
58:8 May they vanish like water that drains away. May their arrows be blunted when they aim their bows.
58:9 May they be like a slug that melts as it moves, like a stillborn baby that never sees the sun.
58:10 Before your cook-pots feel the heat of the burning thorns, may he blow them away, green and blazing alike.
58:11 The righteous will rejoice to see vengeance done, they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked;
58:12 and people will say, “Yes, the righteous are rewarded; there is, after all, a God who judges the earth.”
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