To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.
[58:1] Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
[58:2] No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
[58:3] The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
[58:4] They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
[58:5] so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
[58:6] O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
[58:7] Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
[58:8] Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
[58:9] Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
[58:10] The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
[58:11] Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.”