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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 58 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/58.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/58-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Psalm 58</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/57.htm" title="Psalm 57">◄</a> Psalm 58 <a href="../psalms/59.htm" title="Psalm 59">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/58-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">God Judges the Earth<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><font color=blue>(57:1)</font> For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If ye do indeed speak righteousness, <i>then</i> do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=blue>(57:2)</font> For ye work iniquities in <i>your</i> hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=blue>(57:3)</font> Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=blue>(57:4)</font> Their venom is like <i>that</i> of a serpent; as <i>that</i> of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(57:5)</font> which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor <i>heed</i> the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(57:6)</font> God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(57:7)</font> They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(57:8)</font> They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(57:9)</font> Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(57:10)</font> The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(57:11)</font> And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/57.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 57"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 57" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/59.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 59"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 59" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>