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To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." Of David. A miktam. Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity?</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext3">For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, O gods? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext4">To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext5">For the choir director: "Do Not Destroy." A Davidic Miktam. Do you really speak righteously, you mighty ones? Do you judge people fairly? </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext3">No, in heart you work unrighteousness; On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext5">No, you practice injustice in your hearts; with your hands you weigh out violence in the land. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext3">The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext4">The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext5">The wicked go astray from the womb; liars err from birth. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext3">They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Their poison <i>is</i> like the poison of a serpent: <i>they are</i> like the deaf adder <i>that</i> stoppeth her ear;</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext5">They have venom like the venom of a snake, like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears, </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/psalms/58.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/psalms/58.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/psalms/58.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/psalms/58.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/58.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext3">So that it does not hear the voice of charmers, Or a skillful caster of spells.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext5">that does not listen to the sound of the charmers who skillfully weave spells. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions!</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext3">O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth; Break out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext5">God, knock the teeth out of their mouths; LORD, tear out the young lions' fangs. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall short.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Let them flow away like water that runs off; When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Let them melt away as waters <i>which</i> run continually: <i>when</i> he bendeth <i>his bow to shoot</i> his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext5">They will vanish like water that flows by; they will aim their useless arrows. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along, like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along, Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext4">As a snail <i>which</i> melteth, let <i>every one of them</i> pass away: <i>like</i> the untimely birth of a woman, <i>that</i> they may not see the sun.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Like a slug that moves along in slime, like a woman's miscarried child, they will not see the sun. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns-- whether they be green or dry--the wicked will be swept away.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in <i>his</i> wrath.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns-- whether green or burning-- He will sweep them away. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/psalms/58.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/psalms/58.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/psalms/58.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/psalms/58.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/58.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext3">The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext4">The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext5">The righteous one will rejoice when he sees the retribution; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then people will say, "Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth."</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.”</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext3">And men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; Surely there is a God who judges on earth!"</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext4">So that a man shall say, Verily <i>there is</i> a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Then people will say," Yes, there is a reward for the righteous! 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