### American Standard Version

Psalms 57

## The Book of Psalms

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| # Chapter 58
#### 1 | For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam. Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
#### 2 | Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
#### 3 | The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
#### 4 | Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [They are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
#### 5 | Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely.
#### 6 | Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
#### 7 | Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
#### 8 | [Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
#### 9 | Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
#### 10 | The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
#### 11 | So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.

Psalms 59

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