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58 β[1] **For the chief musician, al tashhet. **This expression is explained***Ξ***** **above, in 57:1. **An instruction by David. **
β[2] The psalmist begins by addressing his enemies:* ***Do you violent men really speak with righteousness? Do you judge men honestly? **
β[3] No,** you plan wrongful deeds in your heart; with your hands you mete out injustice in the land. **
β[4] **The wicked are corrupt from the womb; from birth, liars go astray. **
β[5] **They have poison like the venom of a serpent,** **like a deaf cobra blocking its ear,**
β[6] **which does not hear **or react to **the voice of charmers,** **skillful casters of spells.**** **Most snakes can be calmed by charmers, but the βdeaf viperβ is resistant to such pacification. The wicked are compared to such serpents, incapable of being swayed by words.
β[7] The psalmist continues with a prayer that is more like a curse:* ***God, break their teeth in their mouths; shatter the fangs of the young lions, Lord. **
β[8] **Let them melt away like the runoff of water, **dispersing in all different directions; **when he aims his arrows, let them be crushed **and broken before they hit their targets.
β[9] **Let them be like snails that melt away as they go along.**** Like a stillborn of a woman, which has never seen the sun. **
β[10] The psalmist now addresses the evildoers directly:* ***Before reaching **the age of **understanding, your shoots will become **hardened like** a bramble **bush; **and **then, when **you will be **solidified **like** **a** discrete **plant, **you will be **swept away by a whirlwind of wrath. **
β[11] In the end,* ***the righteous one will rejoice in seeing vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. **
β[12] **And **then **man will say: Surely there is a reward for the righteous;** and even if this reward is not always immediately evident,** **we nevertheless realize that **surely there is a God who judges on earth. **
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