(KJV) Psalm 581

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⥃God Judges the Earth

To the chief Musician, Al–taschith, Michtam of David.

[1] Do2 ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation3? do ye4 judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? [2] Yea, in heart5 ye work wickedness; ye weigh6 the violence of your hands in the earth. [3] The wicked are estranged7 from the womb: they go astray as soon8 as they be born, speaking lies. [4] Their poison9 [is] like10 the poison of a serpent11: [they are] like the deaf12 adder [that] stoppeth her ear; [5] Which13 will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely14. [6] Break their15 teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young16 lions, O Lord. [7] Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.17 [8] As a snail18 [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass19 away: [like] the untimely20 birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun. [9] Before your pots can feel the thorns21, he shall take them away as22 with a whirlwind, both living23, and in [his] wrath. [10] The righteous24 shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash25 his feet in the blood of the wicked. [11] So that a man shall say, Verily [there is26] a reward for27 the righteous: verily he28 is a God that judgeth in the earth.

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  1. Ps 58:1, David reproves wicked judges; Ps 58:3, describes the nature of the wicked; Ps 58:6, devotes them to God’s judgments; Ps 58:10, whereat the righteous shall rejoice. Ps 57:1, Ps 59:1 *titles ↩

  2. Ps 72:1-4; Deut 16:18-19; 2Sam 23:3; 2Chr 19:6-7; Isa 11:3-5, Isa 32:1; Jer 23:5-6 ↩

  3. Ps 82:1-2; Num 11:16; Deut 1:15-16; 2Sam 5:3; Matt 26:3, Matt 27:1; Luke 23:50-51; Acts 5:21 ↩

  4. Ps 82:6-7 ↩

  5. Ps 21:11; Eccl 3:16; Isa 59:4-6; Jer 22:16-17; Ezek 22:12, Ezek 22:27; Mic 3:1-3, Mic 3:9-12; John 11:47-53 ↩

  6. Ps 94:20; Isa 10:1, Isa 26:7 ↩

  7. etc. Ps 51:5; Job 15:14; Prov 22:15; Isa 48:8; Eph 2:3 ↩

  8. etc. Heb. from the belly, Ps 22:10; Isa 46:3 ↩

  9. Ps 140:3; Eccl 10:11; Rom 3:13; Jas 3:8 ↩

  10. Heb. according to the likeness of ↩

  11. Matt 3:7, Matt 23:33 ↩

  12. Jer 8:17, adder or asp, Pethen, is no doubt the boeten of the Arabians, which M. Forskal describes as spotted with black and white, about one foot in length, nearly half an inch thick, oviparous, and its bite almost instant death. It is the aspic of the ancients, and is so called the literati of Cyprus, though the common people call it κουφη, deaf. Job 20:14, Job 20:16; Isa 11:8 ↩

  13. That serpents might be charmed or rendered harmless was well known to the ancients. Virgil, and many others state the fact - Frigidus in pratis cantando, rumpitur anguis. "In the meadows the cold snake is burst by incantation." ↩

  14. or, be the charmer never so cunning, Deut 18:11; Isa 19:3 ↩

  15. Ps 3:7, Ps 10:15; Job 4:10-11, Job 29:17; Ezek 30:21-26 ↩

  16. Ps 17:12, Ps 91:13; Num 23:24; Isa 31:4; Hos 5:14; Mic 5:8 ↩

  17. Ps 22:14, Ps 64:7-8, Ps 112:10; Exod 15:15; Josh 2:9-11, Josh 7:5; 2Sam 17:10; Isa 13:7 ↩

  18. Shabbelool, in Chaldee tivlala, the snail, is probably so called from the Arabic balla, to wet, moisten, because of the glutinous slime emitted from its body, by which it appears to waste itself away in its own motion; and in the same manner the wicked prove their own destruction. ↩

  19. Ps 37:35-36; Matt 24:35; Jas 1:10 ↩

  20. Job 3:16; Eccl 6:3 ↩

  21. Ps 118:12; Eccl 7:6 ↩

  22. Ps 10:2, Ps 10:5, Ps 55:23, Ps 73:18-20; Job 18:18, Job 20:5-29; Prov 1:27, Prov 10:25, Prov 14:32; Isa 17:13, Isa 40:24; Jer 23:19 ↩

  23. etc. Heb. as living as wrath, Num 16:30 ↩

  24. Ps 52:6, Ps 64:10, Ps 68:1-3, Ps 107:42; Judg 5:31; Prov 11:10; Rev 11:17-18, Rev 18:20; Rev 19:1-6 ↩

  25. Ps 68:23; Job 29:6; Rev 14:20 ↩

  26. Ps 73:13-15, Ps 92:15; Mal 3:14; Rom 2:5 ↩

  27. Heb. fruit of the, etc. Isa 3:10; Rom 6:21-22 ↩

  28. Ps 9:16, Ps 64:9, Ps 67:4, Ps 33:18, Ps 96:13, Ps 98:9; Mal 2:17; 2Pet 3:4-10 ↩