THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY PSALM BOOK
Psalm 58
1
Do ye, 0 congregation,
indeed speak righteousness?
and 0 ye sons of earthly men,
do ye judge unrightness?
2
Yea you in heart will working be
in jurious-wickedness;
and in the land you will weigh out
your hands' violence.
3
The wicked are estranged from
the womb, they go astray
as soon as ever they are borne;
uttering lies are they.
4
Their poison's like serpent's poison;
they like deaf asp, her ear
that stops. Though charmer wisely charm,
his voice she will not hear.
5
Within their mouth do thou their teeth
break out, 0 God most strong,
do thou Jehovah, the great teeth
break of the lion's young.
6
As waters let them melt away,
that run continually:
and when he bends his shafts, let them
as cut asunder be.
7
Like to a snail that melts, so let
each of them pass away;
like to a woman's untimely birth see sun that never they may.
8
Before your pots can feel the thorns,
take them away shall he,
as with a whirlwind both living,
and in his jealousy.
9
The righteous will rejoice when as
the vengeance he doth see;
his feet wash shall he in the blood
of them that wicked be.
10
So that a man shall say, surely
for righteous, there is fruit:
sure there's a God that in the earth
judgement doth execute.