Psalms 58
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Psalm 58
Prayer for Vengeance
To the leader: Do Not Destroy. Of David. A Miktam.
1 #
Ps 82.2
Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?
Do you judge people fairly?
2 #
Ps 94.20; Mal 3.15 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
your hands deal out violence on earth.
3 #
Ps 51.5; 53.3; Isa 48.8 The wicked go astray from the womb;
they err from their birth, speaking lies.
4 #
Ps 140.3; Eccl 10.11 They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
5 #
Ps 81.11
so that it does not hear the voice of charmers
or of the cunning enchanter.
6 #
Job 4.10; Ps 3.7 O God, break the teeth in their mouths;
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
7 #
Josh 7.5; Ps 64.3; 112.10 Let them vanish like water that runs away;
like grass let them be trodden down#58.7 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain and wither.
8 #
Job 3.16
Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime,
like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.
9 #
Ps 118.12; Prov 10.25 Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns,
whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
10 #
Ps 64.10; 68.23; 91.8 The righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done;
they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 #
Ps 9.8; 18.20 People will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
surely there is a God who judges#58.11 Or there are gods who judge on earth.”
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