Psalms 58
1 For the end. Destroy not: by David
for a memorial, when Saul sent, and watched his house to kill him.
2 Deliver me from mine enemies, O God;
and ransom me from those that rise up against me.
3 Deliver me from the workers of
iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
4 For, behold, they have hunted after
my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither
is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.
5 Without iniquity I ran and directed
my course aright: awake to help me, and behold.
6 And thou, Lord God of hosts, the God
of Israel, draw nigh to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work
iniquity. Pause. 7 They shall return
at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city.
8 Behold, they shall utter a voice
with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who,
say they, has heard?
9 But thou, Lord, wilt laugh them to
scorn; thou wilt utterly set at nought all the heathen.
10 I will keep my strength,
looking to thee; for thou, O God, art my helper.
11 As for my
God, his mercy shall go before me: my God will shew me
vengeance on mine enemies.
12 Slay them not, lest they forget
thy
asome read λαοῦ 'people'.law; scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my defender.
13 For the
sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips, let
them be even taken in their pride.
14 And for
their cursing and falsehood shall utter destruction
be denounced: they shall fall by the wrath of utter
destruction, and shall not be; so shall they know that the God of Jacob is
Lord of the ends of the earth. Pause.
15 They shall return at evening, and
be hungry as a dog, and go round about the city.
16 They shall be scattered hither and
thither for meat; and if they be not satisfied, they shall even murmur.
17 But I will sing to thy strength,
and in the morning will I exult in thy mercy; for
thou hast been my supporter, and my refuge in the day of mine affliction.
18 Thou art my helper; to thee, my God, will I sing;
thou art my supporter, O my God, and my mercy.