Psalm 58 (57)
God judges judges. God denounces leaders who establish and maintain a
corrupt order instead of being agents of his justice.
2 You gods, are your decrees just, and are your judgments upright?
3 No, you willfully commit crimes; you deal in violence and corruption.
4 Even from the womb the wicked go astray; from birth they are wayward
liars.
5 They are poisonous like deadly snakes, deaf as the adder
6 that blocks its ears so as not to hear the charmer¡¯s voice casting spells.
7 Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; tear out the fangs of the lions, O
Lord.
8 Let them vanish like spilled water; let them be trodden down like grass
that withers.
9 Let them be like snails that sink into slime, like untimely births that
never see the sun.
10 Like green grass that is burned before the thorns are dry ¨C let them be
swept away!
11 The upright will rejoice when they are avenged; they will bathe their
feet in the blood of the wicked.
12 Then will people say, ¡°Surely the righteous are rewarded; surely there is
a God who gives judgment on earth.¡±