Psalm 58

Si vere utique
1
Do you indeed decree righteousness, you rulers? *
do you judge the peoples with equity?
2
No; you devise evil in your hearts, *
and your hands deal out violence in the land.
3
The wicked are perverse from the womb; *
liars go astray from their birth.
4
They are as venomous as a serpent, *
they are like the deaf adder which stops its ears,
5
Which does not heed the voice of the charmer, *
no matter how skillful his charming.
6
O God, break their teeth in their mouths; *
pull the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.
7
Let them vanish like water that runs off; *
let them wither like trodden grass.
8
Let them be like the snail that melts away, *
like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.
9
Before they bear fruit, let them be cut down like a brier; *
like thorns and thistles let them be swept away.
10
The righteous will be glad when they see the vengeance; *
they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
11
And they will say,
“Surely, there is a reward for the righteous; *
surely, there is a God who rules in the earth.”