"(To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.) Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? 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. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. 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. 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."
Here is another hymn based on Psalm 58: Do Ye, O God, Speak Righteousness
Earlier Posts on the Psalms:
- That Man is Blest (Psalm 1)
- On the Good and Faithful (Psalm 4)
- Lord, Our Lord Thy Glorious Name (Psalm 8)
- Wholehearted Thanksgiving to Thee I Will Bring (Psalm 9)
- In God Will I Trust. (Psalm 11) You may recognize this melody from other hymns, like How Firm a Foundation.
- Who, O Lord, With Thee Abiding (Psalm 15)
- When in the Night I Meditate (Psalm 16)
- Psalm 19: The Spacious Heavens Declare (Psalm 19)
- Amid the Thronging Worshippers (Psalm 22)
- The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want (Psalm 23)
- Jehovah is My Light (Psalm 27)
- Now Unto Jehovah Ye Sons of the Mighty (Psalm 29)
- O Lord by Thee Delivered (Psalm 30)
- How Blest is He Whose Tresspass (Psalm 32)
- Ye Children, Come, Give Ear to Me (Psalm 34)
- Be Thou My Helper in the Strife (Psalm 35)
- Thy Mercy and Thy Truth, O Lord (Psalm 36)
- In Thy Wrath and Hot Displeasure (Psalm 38)
- A Mighty Fortress is Our God (Psalm 46)
- Within Thy Temple, Lord (Psalm 48)
- The Mighty God, Jehovah Speaks (Psalm 50)
- God Be Merciful to Me (Psalm 51)
- Gracious God, Our Hearts Renew (Psalm 51)
- O God, the God That Saveth Me (Psalm 51)
- Jehovah to My Prayer Give Ear (Psalm 55)
- O God, Be Merciful, Be Merciful to Me (Psalm 56)
- Do Ye, O God, Speak Righteousness (Psalm 57)
