Psalms 57 — LXXSA

(58) For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial.

57Verse 1If you⌃ do indeed speak righteousness, then do you⌃ judge rightly, you⌃ sons of men.
^{Verse 2}For you⌃ work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
^{Verse 3}Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
^{Verse 4}Their venom is like that of a serpent; as that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
^{Verse 5}which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor heed the⁺charm prepared skillfully by the wise.
^{Verse 6}God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
^{Verse 7}They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
^{Verse 8}They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
^{Verse 9}Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
^{Verse 10}The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
^{Verse 11}And a man shall say, Verily then there is⁺a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.