| 58:1 | Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? | |
| 58:2 | Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. | |
| 58:3 | The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. | |
| 58:4 | Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; | |
| 58:5 | Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. | |
| 58:6 | Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. | |
| 58:7 | 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. | |
| 58:8 | 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. | |
| 58:9 | Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. | |
| 58:10 | The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. | |
| 58:11 | So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. |