New King James Version

Psalms 58:1-7 New King James Version (NKJV)

1. Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones?Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?

2. No, in heart you work wickedness;You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

3. The wicked are estranged from the womb;They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

4. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent;They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,

5. Which will not heed the voice of charmers,Charming ever so skillfully.

6. Break their teeth in their mouth, O God!Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!

7. Let them flow away as waters which run continually;When he bends his bow,Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.