1750 Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims (DR)

1 David reproveth wicked judges, 3 describeth the nature of the wicked, 6 devoteth them to God's judgments, 10 whereat the righteous shall rejoice.

58:1 ¶ Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title. If in very deed ye speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.

58:2 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

58:3 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

58:4 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:

58:5 Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.

58:6 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.

58:7 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

58:8 Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

58:9 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

58:10 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

58:11 And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.