Psalm 58

Living Bible

58 ^1-2Justice? You high and mighty politicians don’t even know the meaning of the word! Fairness? Which of you has any left? Not one! All your dealings are crooked: you give “justice” in exchange for bribes.^[a] ³These men are born sinners, lying from their earliest words! ^4-5They are poisonous as deadly snakes, cobras that close their ears to the most expert of charmers.

⁶O God, break off their fangs. Tear out the teeth of these young lions, Lord. ⁷Let them disappear like water into thirsty ground. Make their weapons useless in their hands.^[b] ⁸Let them be as snails that dissolve into slime and as those who die at birth, who never see the sun. ⁹God will sweep away both old and young. He will destroy them more quickly than a cooking pot can feel the blazing fire of thorns beneath it.

¹⁰The godly shall rejoice in the triumph of right;^[c] they shall walk the bloodstained fields of slaughtered, wicked men. ¹¹Then at last everyone will know that good is rewarded, and that there is a God who judges justly here on earth.

Footnotes

Psalm 58:1 you give “justice” in exchange for bribes, literally, “you deal out the violence of your hands in the land.”
Psalm 58:7 Make their weapons useless in their hands, or “Let them be trodden down and wither like grass.”
Psalm 58:10 in the triumph of right, literally, “when he sees the vengeance.”