
58 - Si vere utique

1  Do you indeed decree righteousness, O you rulers, *
and do you judge uprightly, O children of men?
2  No, you devise evil in your heart, *
and on the earth your hands deal out violence.
3  The ungodly err even from their mother’s womb; *
as soon as they are born, they go astray and speak lies.
4  They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, *
even like the deaf adder that stops its ears,
5  Which refuses to hear the voice of the charmer, *
no matter how skillful his charming.
6  Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths; *
smite the jawbones of the ungodly. 
7  Let them fall away like water that runs off; *
let them wither like the grass that is trodden underfoot.
8  Let them melt away like a snail, *
and be like a stillborn child that does not see the sun.
9  Before they bear fruit, let them be cut off like a briar; *
let them be like thorns and weeds that are swept away.

10  The righteous shall rejoice when they see the vengeance; *
they shall wash their feet in the blood of the ungodly.
11  So that people shall say, “Truly, there is a reward
  for the righteous; *
surely, there is a God who judges the earth.”
