Psalm 58-59

Jubilee Bible 2000

To the Overcomer upon, Do not destroy, Michtam of David.

¹ ¶ Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of Adam?

² Yea, in heart ye work iniquity; 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 are born, speaking lies.

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear,

⁵ which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

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 bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

⁸ As a snail which melts, let them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

⁹ Before your pots can feel the fire of the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

¹⁰ The righteous shall rejoice when he sees 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 there is a God that judges in the earth.

To the Overcomer upon, Do not destroy, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.

¹ ¶ Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; defend me from those that rise up against me.

² Deliver me from the workers of iniquity and save me from bloodthirsty men.

³ For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul; the strong are gathered against me; I am not in rebellion, nor in sin, O LORD.

⁴ They run and prepare themselves when I have committed no iniquity; awake to help me and behold.

⁵ Thou, therefore, O LORD God of the hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the Gentiles; be not merciful to any rebellious workers of iniquity. Selah.

⁶ They will return at evening; they will bark like dogs and go round about outside the city.

⁷ Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for who, say they, doth hear?

⁸ ¶ But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the Gentiles in derision.

⁹ I will reserve his strength unto thee, for God is my defence.

¹⁰ The God of my mercy shall meet me on the way; God shall let me see my desire upon my enemies.

¹¹ Slay them not lest my people forget; scatter them by thy power and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

¹² For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; they shall be subject to weakness and to a curse.

¹³ Consume them in wrath, consume them that they may not be and let them know that God rules in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.

¹⁴ And at evening let them return and let them bark like dogs and go round about outside the city.

¹⁵ Let them wander up and down for food and murmur if they are not satisfied.

¹⁶ But I will sing of thy power; I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning, for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

¹⁷ Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing, for God is my defence and the God of my mercy.