1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
1Untuk pemimpin kor. Menurut lagu: Jangan memusnahkan. Mazmur dari Daud. (58-2) Hai para penguasa, adilkah keputusanmu? Jujurkah kamu waktu menghakimi manusia?
2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
2(58-3) Tidak, kamu merencanakan yang jahat, dan melakukan kekerasan di negeri ini.
3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
3(58-4) Orang jahat sudah sesat sejak dari kandungan mereka sudah menipu sejak dilahirkan.
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
4(58-5) Mereka beracun seperti ular berbisa, dan menyumbat telinganya seperti seekor kobra tuli
5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
5(58-6) yang tidak mendengar suara pawang yang pandai, atau suara pembawa mantra yang cakap.
6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
6(58-7) Ya Allah, patahkanlah gigi-gigi mereka, cabutlah taring singa-singa muda itu, TUHAN.
7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
7(58-8) Biarlah mereka lenyap seperti air yang menguap, seperti anak panah yang sudah tumpul.
8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
8(58-9) Biarlah mereka seperti siput yang meleleh menjadi lendir, seperti bayi yang mati sebelum melihat terang.
9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
9(58-10) Sebelum disadari, mereka sudah binasa, seperti semak belukar yang masih hijau dan belum besar habis diterbangkan angin, seolah-olah itu tanaman kering.
10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
10(58-11) Melihat orang jahat dihukum, orang jujur bergembira, dan membasuh kakinya dalam darah orang durhaka.
11So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
11(58-12) Orang akan berkata, "Memang orang baik mendapat pahala, sungguh, ada Allah yang menghakimi di bumi."