For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. Michtam.
{Or, Is the righteousness ye should speak dumb?}Do ye indeed {Or, as otherwise read, O ye gods Or, O ye mighty ones}in silence speak righteousness?
Do ye {Or, judge uprightly the sons of men}judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Nay, in heart ye work wickedness;
Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
The wicked are estranged from the womb:
They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:
They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
Which hearkeneth not to the voice of {Or, enchanters}charmers,
Charming never so wisely.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:
Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
Let them melt away as water that runneth apace:
When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away,
Like the untimely birth of a woman, {Or, like them that have not seen the sun}that hath not seen the sun.
Before your pots can feel the thorns,
{Or, Wrath shall take them away while living as with a whirlwind}He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
So that men shall say, Verily there is {Hebrew: fruit.}a reward for the righteous:
Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Querverweise zu Psalm 58,10 Ps 58,10
The righteous also shall see it, and fear,And shall laugh at him, saying,
That thou mayest crush them, dipping thy foot in blood,That the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from thine enemies.
The righteous shall be glad in Jehovah, and shall take refuge in him;And all the upright in heart shall glory.
When my steps were washed with butter,And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
For the Chief Musician; A Psalm of David, a Song. {Or, God ariseth; and so throughout verse 1, 2, 3.}Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered;Let them also that hate him flee before him.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away:As wax melteth before the fire,So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God:Yea, let them rejoice with gladness.
And the winepress was trodden without the city, and there came out blood from the winepress, even unto the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
The upright shall see it, and be glad;And all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
So let all thine enemies perish, O Jehovah:But let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.And the land had rest forty years.
When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth;And when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
saying,We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast; because thou hast taken thy great power, and didst reign.
And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to thy {Greek: bondservants}servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth.
Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets; for God hath judged your judgment on her.
After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying,Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and power, belong to our God:
for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath judged the great harlot, her that corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he hath avenged the blood of his {Greek: bondservants.}servants at her hand.
And a second time they {Greek: have said.}say, Hallelujah. And her smoke goeth up {Greek: unto the ages of the ages.}for ever and ever.
And the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God that sitteth on the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah.
And a voice came forth from the throne, saying,Give praise to our God, all ye his {Greek: bondservants.}servants, ye that fear him, the small and the great.
And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunders, saying,Hallelujah: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigneth.