Reformation Directory

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.

1.Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?^58-1^58-2

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^58-3 as they be born, speaking lies.

4.Their poison is like the poison^58-4 of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder^58-5 that stoppeth her ear;

5.Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming^58-6 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^58-7 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^58-8 for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Psalm 58