Psalm 58 KJV ISV Parallel

◄ Psalm 58 ►

King James Bible

International Standard Version

1To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

1How is it that by remaining silent you can speak righteously? How can you judge people fairly?

2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

2As a matter of fact, in your heart you plan iniquities! In the land your hands are violent!

3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

3The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth.

4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

4Their venom is like a poisonous snake; even like a deaf serpent that shuts its ears,

5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

5refusing to hear the voice of the snake charmer, the cunning enchanter.

6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

6God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; LORD, break the fangs of the young lions!

7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

7May they flow away like rain water that runs off, may they become like someone who shoots broken arrows.

8As 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.

8May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman's stillborn baby, who never saw the sun.

9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

9Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns— whether green or ablaze— wrath will sweep them away like a storm.

10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

10The righteous person will rejoice when he sees your vengeance; when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked.

11So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

11A person will say, "Certainly, the righteous are rewarded; certainly there is a God who judges the earth."

King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com.