# Psalm 58 ## Psalm 58:1 - [KJV] Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? - [ASV] Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? - [YLT] Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men? ### Notes on Psalm 58:1 - ## Psalm 58:2 - [KJV] Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. - [ASV] Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. - [YLT] Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder. ### Notes on Psalm 58:2 - ## Psalm 58:3 - [KJV] The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. - [ASV] The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. - [YLT] The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies. ### Notes on Psalm 58:3 - ## Psalm 58:4 - [KJV] Their poison *is* like the poison of a serpent: *they are* like the deaf adder *that* stoppeth her ear; - [ASV] Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: *They are* like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, - [YLT] Their poison *is* as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear, ### Notes on Psalm 58:4 - ## Psalm 58:5 - [KJV] Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. - [ASV] Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely. - [YLT] Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful. ### Notes on Psalm 58:5 - ## Psalm 58:6 - [KJV] Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. - [ASV] Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah. - [YLT] O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah. ### Notes on Psalm 58:6 - ## Psalm 58:7 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off. - [YLT] They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off. ### Notes on Psalm 58:7 - ## Psalm 58:8 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] *Let them be* as a snail which melteth and passeth away, *Like* the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun. - [YLT] As a snail that melteth he goeth on, *As* an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun. ### Notes on Psalm 58:8 - ## Psalm 58:9 - [KJV] Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in *his* wrath. - [ASV] Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike. - [YLT] Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away. ### Notes on Psalm 58:9 - ## Psalm 58:10 - [KJV] The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. - [ASV] The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; - [YLT] The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked. ### Notes on Psalm 58:10 - ## Psalm 58:11 - [KJV] So that a man shall say, Verily *there is* a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. - [ASV] So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. - [YLT] And man saith: 'Surely fruit *is* for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!' ### Notes on Psalm 58:11 -