Psalm 58:10 {57:11}
Good News Translation
The righteous will be glad when they see sinners punished; they will wade through the blood of the wicked.

New Revised Standard Version
The righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

Contemporary English Version
Good people will be glad when they see the wicked getting what they deserve, and they will wash their feet in their enemies' blood.

New American Bible
Then the just shall rejoice to see the vengeance and bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

righteous

Psalm 52:6 The just shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say:

Psalm 64:10 The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.

Psalm 68:1-3 Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself. [2] Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face. . . .

Psalm 107:42 The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Judges 5:31 So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love thee shine, as the sun shineth in his rising. [32] And the land rested for forty years.

Proverbs 11:10 By the blessing of the just the city shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the wicked it shall be overthrown.

Revelation 11:17,18 We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who art and who wast and who art to come: because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and thou hast reigned. . . .

Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets. For God hath judged your judgment on her.

Revelation 19:1-6 After these things, I heard as it were the voice of much people in heaven, saying: Alleluia. Salvation and glory and power is to our God. . . .

wash

Psalm 68:23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the tongue of thy dogs be red with the same.

Job 29:6 When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?

Revelation 14:20 And the press was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the press, up to the horses' bridles, for a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

Context
God Judges the Earth
9Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath. 10The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.11And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.…
Cross References
Exodus 14:30
And the Lord delivered Israel in that day out of the hands of the Egyptians.

Deuteronomy 32:43
Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.

Job 22:19
The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.

Psalm 32:11
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, and glory, all ye right of heart.

Psalm 64:10
The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.

Psalm 68:23
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the tongue of thy dogs be red with the same.

Psalm 91:8
But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and shalt see the reward of the wicked.

Psalm 107:42
The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Proverbs 29:16
When the wicked are multiplied, crimes shall be multiplied: but the just shall see their downfall.

Jeremiah 11:20
But thou, O Lord of Sabaoth, who judgest justly, and triest the reins and the hearts, let me see thy revenge on them: for to thee have I revealed my cause.

Jeremiah 20:12
And thou, O Lord of hosts, prover of the just, who seest the reins and the heart: let me see, I beseech thee, thy vengeance on them: for to thee I have laid open my cause.

Psalm 58:9
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