Psalm 58
Verse 1
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O 1 congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
You counsellors of Saul, who under pretence of consulting for the common wealth, conspire my death being an innocent.
Verse 2
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of 1 your hands in the earth.
You are not ashamed to execute that cruelty publicly, which you have imagined in your hearts.
Verse 3
The wicked 1 are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
That is, enemies to the people of God even from their birth.
Verse 4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf 1 adder that stoppeth her ear;
They pass in malice and subtilty the crafty serpent who could preserve himself by stopping his ears from the enchanter.
Verse 6
Break their 1 teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
Take away all opportunity and means by which they hurt.
Verse 7
Let them 1 melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
Considering God's divine power, he shows that God in a moment can destroy their force of which they brag.
Verse 9
1 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
As flesh is taken raw out of the pot before the water boils: so he desires God to destroy their enterprises before they bring them to pass.
Verse 10
The righteous shall 1 rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the 2 blood of the wicked.
With a pure affection.
Their punishment and slaughter will be so great.
Verse 11
So that a man shall say, 1 Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Seeing God governs all by his providence, he must put a difference between the godly and the wicked.