Psalm 58
King James Translators' Notes
<> Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Altaschith...: or, Destroy not

Michtam: or, A golden Psalm

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
as soon...: Heb. from the belly
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
like the poison: Heb. according to the likeness, etc

adder: or, asp

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
charming...: or, be the charmer never so cunning
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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.
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.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
both...: Heb. as living as wrath
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
a reward...: Heb. fruit of the, etc
King James Translators' Notes

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