September 12: Psalms 58–65

Psalms 58–65 Psalms 58–65 (Listen) God Who Judges the Earth To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam1 of David. 58   Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?2<br />    Do you judge the children of man uprightly?<br />2   No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;<br />    your hands deal out violence on earth.<br /> 3   The wicked are estranged from the womb;<br />    they go astray from birth, speaking lies.<br />4   They have venom like the venom of a serpent,<br />    like the deaf adder that stops its ear,<br />5   so that it does not hear the voice of charmers<br />    or of the cunning enchanter.<br /> 6   O God, break the teeth in their mouths;<br />    tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!<br />7   Let them vanish like water that runs away;<br />    when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.<br />8   Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime,<br />    like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.<br />