¶ To him that excelleth. Deſtroye not. A Pſalm of Dauid on Michtám.

1.IS it true? ô ^aCongregacion, ſpeake ye iuſtly? ô ſonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly?

2.YEA, rather ye imagine miſchief in your heart: ^byour hands execute crueltie vpō the earth.

3.The wicked ^care ſtrangers from the wōbe: euen from the belly haue they erred, & ſpeake lies.

4.Their poiſon is euen like the poiſon of a ſerpent: like the deafe ^dadder that ſtoppeth his eare.

5.Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, thogh he be moſte expert in charming.

6.Breake their ^eteeth, ô God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, ô Lord.

7.Let them ^fmelt like the waters, let thē paſſe away: when he ſhooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.

8.Let him conſume like a ſnaile that melteth, & like y^e vntimelie frute of a woman, that hathe not ſene the ſunne.

9.^gAs rawe fleſh before your pottes fele the fyre of thornes: ſo let him carie them away as with a whirle winde in his wrath.

10.The righteous ſhal ^hreioyce when he ſeeth the vengeance: he ſhal waſh his fete in the ⁱblood of the wicked.

11.And men ſhal ſay, ^kVerely there is frute for the righteous: doutles there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.

Psalm 58