Salmos 58
Palabra de Dios para Todos
El Señor castiga la injusticia
Al director. Al compás de «No destruyas». Poema de David.
1 Ustedes los poderosos[a] no son justos en sus decisiones.
No están gobernando a la gente como debe ser,
2 sino que tienen la mente llena de maldad.
Dan rienda suelta a la violencia en el país.
3 Los perversos se corrompen desde que nacen;
los mentirosos se descarrían desde el vientre materno.
4 Su veneno es como el de las serpientes,
como el de una cobra sorda que cierra su oído,
5 para no oír la música de los encantadores,
ni siquiera del encantador más hábil.
6 Rómpeles los dientes, Dios mío,
arráncales a esos leones sus colmillos, SEÑOR.
7 Que su fuerza desaparezca como el agua entre los dedos;
que sean aplastados como hierba que se pisa.
8 Que desaparezcan como la babosa que se deshace;
que sean como un bebé que nace muerto y nunca ve la luz del sol.
9 Que antes de darse cuenta,
ardan como espinos que se queman para calentar la olla.
Que sean arrancados con enojo,
como hierba mala entre la hierba buena.
10 Y se alegre el justo al verse vengado,
como el soldado que pisa la sangre del enemigo.
11 La gente dirá: «De veras los justos son recompensados;
es verdad que hay un Dios que gobierna el mundo».
Footnotes
- 58:1 poderosos o dioses.
Psalm 58
King James Version
58 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; 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 be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth 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 bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
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.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth 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 he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Psalm 58
English Standard Version
God Who Judges the Earth
To the choirmaster: according to (A)Do Not Destroy. A (B)Miktam[a] of David.
58 Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?[b]
Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
2 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
your hands (C)deal out violence on earth.
3 The wicked are (D)estranged from the womb;
they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
4 (E)They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
5 so that it (F)does not hear the voice of charmers
or of the cunning enchanter.
6 O God, (G)break the teeth in their mouths;
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
7 Let them (H)vanish like water that runs away;
when he (I)aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
8 Let them be like the snail (J)that dissolves into slime,
like (K)the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9 Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of (L)thorns,
whether green or ablaze, may he (M)sweep them away![c]
10 (N)The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
he will (O)bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Mankind will say, “Surely there is (P)a reward for the righteous;
surely there is a God who (Q)judges on earth.”
Footnotes
- Psalm 58:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
- Psalm 58:1 Or you mighty lords (by revocalization; Hebrew in silence)
- Psalm 58:9 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
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