{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/psalms/58","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-29T17:28:29.996Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":58,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":57,"nextChapter":59,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":11},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.} Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Their poison <i>is</i> like the poison of a serpent: <i>they are</i> like the deaf adder <i>that</i> stoppeth her ear;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Let them melt away as waters <i>which</i> run continually: <i>when</i> he bendeth <i>his bow to shoot</i> his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"As a snail <i>which</i> melteth, let <i>every one of them</i> pass away: <i>like</i> the untimely birth of a woman, <i>that</i> they may not see the sun."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in <i>his</i> wrath."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"So that a man shall say, Verily <i>there is</i> a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 58 (KJV)","markdown":"[Psalms 58](https://primebible.com/kjv/psalms/58)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/psalms/58 (accessed 2026-05-29)."}}