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.