Salmos 58
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Dios, el Juez de la tierra
58 Al músico principal. Sobre “No destruyas”[a]. Mictam[b] de David.
Oh magistrados, ¿en verdad
pronuncian justicia?
¿ Juzgan rectamente a los hijos del hombre?
2 Más bien, con el corazón obran
iniquidad en la tierra
y a la violencia abren camino con sus manos.
3 Los impíos se alienaron desde la matriz; se descarriaron desde el vientre hablando mentira.
4 Tienen veneno como veneno de serpiente;
son como una cobra sorda que tapa sus oídos
5 y no oye la voz de los encantadores, aun del más experto encantador.
6 Oh Dios, rompe sus dientes en
su boca;
quiebra, oh SEÑOR, los colmillos de los leones.
7 Escúrranse como aguas que
se pierden;
que cuando apunten con sus flechas estas queden despuntadas.
8 Pasen como la babosa que se deshace;
y, como un abortivo de mujer, no vean el sol.
9 Antes que sus espinos produzcan
espinas,
con su ira los arrebatará cual vendaval[c].
10 El justo se alegrará cuando vea la venganza,
y lavará sus pies en la sangre del impío.
11 Entonces dirá el hombre:
“Ciertamente el justo tiene frutos; ciertamente hay un Dios que juzga
la tierra”.
Footnotes
- Salmos 58:1 Posiblemente el nombre de un cántico.
- Salmos 58:1 Término musical de significado ahora desconocido.
- Salmos 58:9 Según prop. Stutt.; heb., de significado oscuro.
Psalm 58
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Psalm 58[a]
The Dethroning of Unjust Rulers
1 For the leader. Do not destroy.[b] A miktam of David.
I
2 Do you indeed pronounce justice, O gods;[c]
do you judge fairly you children of Adam?(A)
3 No, you freely engage in crime;
your hands dispense violence to the earth.
II
4 The wicked have been corrupt since birth;
liars from the womb, they have gone astray.
5 [d]Their venom is like the venom of a snake,
like that of a serpent stopping its ears,(B)
6 So as not to hear the voice of the charmer
or the enchanter with cunning spells.
III
7 O God, smash the teeth in their mouths;
break the fangs of these lions, Lord!(C)
8 Make them vanish like water flowing away;(D)
trodden down, let them wither like grass.(E)
9 Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away,[e]
like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.(F)
10 Suddenly, like brambles or thistles,
have the whirlwind snatch them away.(G)
11 Then the just shall rejoice to see the vengeance
and bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.(H)
12 Then people will say:
“Truly there is a reward for the just;
there is a God who is judge on earth!”
Footnotes
- Psalm 58 A lament expressing trust in God’s power to dethrone all powers obstructing divine rule of the world. First condemned are “the gods,” the powers that were popularly imagined to control human destinies (Ps 58:2–3), then “the wicked,” the human instruments of these forces (Ps 58:4–6). The psalmist prays God to prevent them from harming the just (Ps 58:7–10). The manifestation of justice will gladden the just; they will see that their God is with them (Ps 58:11). The Psalm is less concerned with personal vengeance than with public vindication of God’s justice now.
- 58:1 Do not destroy: probably the title of the melody to which the Psalm was to be sung.
- 58:2 Gods: the Bible sometimes understands pagan gods to be lesser divine beings who are assigned by Israel’s God to rule the foreign nations. Here they are accused of injustice, permitting the human judges under their patronage to abuse the righteous, cf. Ps 82.
- 58:5–6 The image is that of a poisonous snake that is controlled by the voice or piping of its trainer.
- 58:9 A snail that oozes away: empty shells suggested to ancients that snails melted away as they left a slimy trail.
Psalm 58
Legacy Standard Bible
There Is a God Who Judges on Earth
For the choir director. [a]Al-tashheth. Of David. A [b]Mikhtam.
58 Do you indeed [c]speak righteousness, O [d]gods?
Do you (A)judge [e]with equity, O sons of men?
2 No, in heart you (B)work unrighteousness;
On earth you [f](C)prepare a path for the violence of your hands.
3 The wicked are estranged (D)from the womb;
These who speak falsehood (E)wander in error from [g]birth.
4 They have venom like the (F)venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
5 So that it (G)does not hear the voice of [h](H)charmers,
Or a skillful caster of spells.
6 O God, (I)shatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh.
7 Let them (J)flow away like water that runs off;
When he [i](K)aims his arrows, let them be as [j]headless shafts.
8 Let them be as a snail which [k]melts away as it goes along,
Like the (L)miscarriages of a woman which never behold the sun.
9 Before your (M)pots can feel the fire of thorns
He will (N)sweep them away with a whirlwind, the living and the burning alike.
10 The (O)righteous will be glad when he (P)beholds the vengeance;
He will (Q)wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 And men will say, “Surely there is a [l](R)reward for the righteous;
Surely there is a God who (S)judges [m]on earth!”
Footnotes
- Psalm 58 Title Lit Do Not Destroy
- Psalm 58 Title Possibly Epigrammatic Poem, Atonement Psalm
- Psalm 58:1 Or speak righteousness in silence
- Psalm 58:1 Or mighty ones, judges
- Psalm 58:1 Or uprightly the sons of men
- Psalm 58:2 Lit make level
- Psalm 58:3 Lit stomach
- Psalm 58:5 Or whisperers
- Psalm 58:7 Lit bends
- Psalm 58:7 Lit though they were cut off
- Psalm 58:8 Secretes slime
- Psalm 58:11 Lit fruit
- Psalm 58:11 Or in
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