Highlights
- This chapter spells out the wicked and the righteous hope is in God to avenge the evil acts committed on them vs 1, 2, 6, 10 – 11;
- Also mentioned corrupt judges – no justice and let the wicked free vs 1 – 2;
- Vs 11, hope in a righteous God to act in a fallen world of evil.
Psalms 58:1-2,4-11
[1]Do you rulers ever give a just decision? Do you judge everyone fairly?
[2]No! You think only of the evil you can do, and commit crimes of violence in the land.
[4]They are full of poison like snakes; they stop up their ears like a deaf cobra,
[5]which does not hear the voice of the snake charmer, or the chant of the clever magician.
[6]Break the teeth of these fierce lions, O God.
[7]May they disappear like water draining away; may they be crushed like weeds on a path.
[8]May they be like snails that dissolve into slime; may they be like a baby born dead that never sees the light.
[9]Before they know it, they are cut down like weeds; in his fierce anger God will blow them away while they are still living.
[10]The righteous will be glad when they see sinners punished; they will wade through the blood of the wicked.
[11]People will say, “The righteous are indeed rewarded; there is indeed a God who judges the world.”