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Psalm 58

Psalm

A psalm written by David for the choir director, when David went into a cave to escape from Saul; to be sung using the tune “Do not destroy.”

58 God, act mercifully toward me!

Act mercifully toward me because I am coming to you to protect me.

I request you to protect me as little birds are protected under their mother’s wings

until the storm is ended.

2 God, you who are greater than all other gods,

I cry out to you, the one who enables me to be all that you desire.

3 You will answer me from heaven and rescue me,

but you will cause those who oppress me to be defeated and disgraced!

God will always faithfully love me as he has promised me.

4 Sometimes I am surrounded by my enemies, who are as ready to kill me as lions are to kill people;

they are like lions that chew to bits the animals that they kill.

But my enemies are human, and they have spears and arrows, not teeth;

they say false things about me.

5 God, show in the heavens that you are very great!

Show your glory to people all over the earth!

6 It is as if my enemies have spread a net to seize me,

and I became very distressed.

It is as if they have dug a deep pit along the path where I walk,

but they themselves fell into it!

7 God, I am very confident in you.

I will sing to you,

and I will praise you while I sing.

8 It is an honor to wake up and praise you.

I will arise before the sun rises

and praise you while I play my big harp or my lyre.

9 Lord, I will thank you among all the people;

and I will sing songs of praise about you to many people groups.

10 For your love for us is as great as the distance from the earth to the sky,

and your faithfulness to us goes up to the clouds.

11 God, show in the heavens that you are very great!

Show your glory to people all over the earth!

Psalm

A psalm written by David for the choir director, to be sung using the tune “Do not destroy.”

58 When you rulers speak, you never say what is right;

you people never justly decide disputes.

2 No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong,

and you commit violent crimes everywhere in this land of Israel.

3 Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born.

4 What wicked people say injures people like the venom of a snake.

They refuse to listen to commands; it is as though they were deaf cobras.

5 As a result, like a snake that does not respond when a charmer plays a flute or when someone sings magic songs,

they do not pay attention when others rebuke them.

6 God, as for these enemies who want to attack me like young lions,

break the teeth in their mouths!

7 Cause them to disappear as water disappears in dry ground!

Cause the arrows that they shoot to have no heads!

8 Cause them to become like snails that disappear in the slime;

cause them to be like a baby that is born dead!

9 I hope that you will get rid of them

as fast as thornbushes are blown away after they are cut.

10 People who do what is right will rejoice when they see God punish the wicked people;

they will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.

11 Then people will say, “It is true that there is a reward for righteous people;

and there is indeed a God who judges people justly here on the earth!”