58 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. Set to “Do Not Destroy.” By David, a mikhtam:

^2 (1) [Rulers,] does your silence really speak justice?
Are you judging people fairly?
^3 (2) [No!] In your hearts you devise wrongs,
your hands dispense violence in the land.

^4 (3) From the womb, the wicked are estranged,
liars on the wrong path since birth.
^5 (4) Their venom is like snake’s venom;
they are like a serpent that stops its ears,
^6 (5) so as not to hear the voice of the charmer,
no matter how well he plays.

^7 (6) God, break their teeth in their mouth!
Shatter the fangs of these lions, Adonai!
^8 (7) May they vanish like water that drains away.
May their arrows be blunted when they aim their bows.
^9 (8) May they be like a slug that melts as it moves,
like a stillborn baby that never sees the sun.
^10 (9) Before your cook-pots feel the heat of the burning thorns,
may he blow them away, green and blazing alike.

^11 (10) The righteous will rejoice to see vengeance done,
they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked;
^12 (11) and people will say, “Yes, the righteous are rewarded;
there is, after all, a God who judges the earth.”