Psalm 58 CSB NLT Parallel

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◄ Psalm 58 ►

Christian Standard Bible

New Living Translation

1Do you really speak righteously, you mighty ones? Do you judge people fairly?

1Justice—do you rulers know the meaning of the word? Do you judge the people fairly?

2No, you practice injustice in your hearts; with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.

2No! You plot injustice in your hearts. You spread violence throughout the land.

3The wicked go astray from the womb; liars wander about from birth.

3These wicked people are born sinners; even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.

4They have venom like the venom of a snake, like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,

4They spit venom like deadly snakes; they are like cobras that refuse to listen,

5that does not listen to the sound of the charmers who skillfully weave spells.

5ignoring the tunes of the snake charmers, no matter how skillfully they play.

6God, knock the teeth out of their mouths; LORD, tear out the young lions' fangs.

6Break off their fangs, O God! Smash the jaws of these lions, O LORD!

7May they vanish like water that flows by; may they aim their blunted arrows.

7May they disappear like water into thirsty ground. Make their weapons useless in their hands.

8Like a slug that moves along in slime, like a woman's miscarried child, may they not see the sun.

8May they be like snails that dissolve into slime, like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.

9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns--whether green or burning--he will sweep them away.

9God will sweep them away, both young and old, faster than a pot heats over burning thorns.

10The righteous one will rejoice when he sees the retribution; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

10The godly will rejoice when they see injustice avenged. They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.

11Then people will say, "Yes, there is a reward for the righteous! There is a God who judges on earth!"

11Then at last everyone will say, “There truly is a reward for those who live for God; surely there is a God who judges justly here on earth.”