Psalm 58
Psalm 58
NORWICH  |  Same-Tune Hymns  |  Bible Passage
Author: 1650 Scottish Psalter
Musician: Ravenscroft's Psalter, 1621

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   1  Do ye, O congregätion,
         indeed speak righteousness?
      O ye that are the sons of men,
         judge ye with uprightness?
   2  Yea, ev'n within your very hearts
         ye wickedness have done;
      And ye the vi'lence of your hands
         do weigh the earth upon.

   3  The wicked men estrangèd are,
         ev'n from the very womb;
      They, speaking lies, do stray as soon
         as to the world they come.
   4  Unto a serpent's poison like
         their poison doth appear;
      Yea, they are like the adder deaf,
         that closely stops her ear;

   5  That so she may not hear the voice
         of one that charm her would,
      No, not though he most cunning were,
         and charm most wisely could.
   6  Their teeth, O God, within their mouth
         break thou in pieces small;
      The great teeth break thou out, O Lord,
         of these young lions all.

   7  Let them like waters melt away,
         which downward still do flow:
      In pieces cut his arrows all,
         when he shall bend his bow.
   8  Like to a snail that melts away,
         let each of them be gone;
      Like woman's birth untimely, that
         they never see the sun.

   9  He shall them take away before
         your pots the thorns can find,
      Both living, and in fury great,
         as with a stormy wind.
  10  The righteous, when he vengeance sees,
         he shall be joyful then;
      The righteous one shall wash his feet
         in blood of wicked men.

  11  So men shall say, The righteous man
         reward shall never miss:
      And verily upon the earth
         a God to judge there is.


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BIBLE PASSAGE:

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.