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World English Bible

Psalm 58 (WEBP)

[1] Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
[2] No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands on the earth.
[3] The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
[4] Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
[5] which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.
[6] Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
[7] Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
[8] Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
[9] Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
[10] The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
[11] so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Psalm 58 (KJVS)

[1] Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
[2] Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
[3] The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
[4] Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
[5] Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely.
[6] Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
[7] Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
[8] As 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.
[9] Before your pots can feel the thorns, He shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
[10] The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
[11] So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Psalm 58:3 Heb. from the belly
Psalm 58:4a Heb. according to the likeness
Psalm 58:4b Or, asp
Psalm 58:5 Or, be the charmer never so cunning
Psalm 58:9 Heb. as living, as wrath
Psalm 58:11 Heb. fruit of the etc.

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Psalm 58 (BYZ)

[1] Εἰς () τὸ () τέλος· () μὴ () διαφθείρῃς· () τῷ () Δαυιδ () εἰς () στηλογραφίαν. Εἰ () ἀληθῶς () ἄρα () δικαιοσύνην () λαλεῖτε; () Εὐθεῖα () κρίνετε, () οἱ () υἱοὶ () τῶν () ἀνθρώπων; ()
[2] Καὶ () γὰρ () ἐν () καρδίᾳ () ἀνομίας () ἐργάζεσθε () ἐν () τῇ () γῇ, () ἀδικίαν () αἱ () χεῖρες () ὑμῶν () συμπλέκουσιν.
[3] Ἀπηλλοτριώθησαν () οἱ () ἁμαρτωλοὶ () ἀπὸ () μήτρας, () ἐπλανήθησαν () ἀπὸ () γαστρός, () ἐλάλησαν () ψεύδη. ()
[4] Θυμὸς () αὐτοῖς () κατὰ () τὴν () ὁμοίωσιν () τοῦ () ὄφεως, () ὡσεὶ () ἀσπίδος () κωφῆς () καὶ () βυούσης τὰ () ὦτα () αὐτῆς, ()
[5] ἥτις () οὐκ () εἰσακούσεται () φωνὴν () ἐπᾳδόντων φαρμάκου () τε () φαρμακευομένου παρὰ () σοφοῦ. ()
[6] Ὁ () θεὸς () συνέτριψεν () τοὺς () ὀδόντας () αὐτῶν () ἐν () τῷ () στόματι () αὐτῶν, () τὰς () μύλας τῶν () λεόντων () συνέθλασεν () κύριος. ()
[7] Ἐξουδενωθήσονται () ὡς () ὕδωρ () διαπορευόμενον· () ἐντενεῖ τὸ () τόξον () αὐτοῦ, () ἕως () οὗ () ἀσθενήσουσιν. ()
[8] Ὡσεὶ () κηρὸς ὁ () τακεὶς () ἀνταναιρεθήσονται· ἐπέπεσε () πῦρ, () καὶ () οὐκ () εἶδον () τὸν () ἥλιον. ()
[9] Πρὸ () τοῦ () συνιέναι () τὰς () ἀκάνθας () ὑμῶν () τὴν () ῥάμνον, ὡσεὶ () ζῶντας () ὡσεὶ () ἐν () ὀργῇ () καταπίεται () ὑμᾶς. ()
[10] Εὐφρανθήσεται () δίκαιος, () ὅταν () ἴδῃ () ἐκδίκησιν () ἀσεβῶν· () τὰς () χεῖρας () αὐτοῦ () νίψεται () ἐν () τῷ () αἵματι () τοῦ () ἁμαρτωλοῦ. ()
[11] Καὶ () ἐρεῖ () ἄνθρωπος () Εἰ () ἄρα () ἔστιν () καρπὸς () τῷ () δικαίῳ, () ἄρα () ἐστὶν () ὁ () θεὸς () κρίνων () αὐτοὺς () ἐν () τῇ () γῇ. ()

Psalm 58:1 Originally verses 57:1–2.
Psalm 58:2 Originally verse 57:3.
Psalm 58:3 Originally verse 57:4.
Psalm 58:4 Originally verse 57:5.
Psalm 58:5 Originally verse 57:6.
Psalm 58:6 Originally verse 57:7.
Psalm 58:7 Originally verse 57:8.
Psalm 58:8 Originally verse 57:9.
Psalm 58:9 Originally verse 57:10.
Psalm 58:10 Originally verse 57:11.
Psalm 58:11 Originally verse 57:12.

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.