Salmos 58
Reina Valera Contemporánea
¡Hay un Dios que juzga!
Al músico principal. Sobre «No destruyas». Mictam de David.
58 Ustedes los jueces ¿en verdad hacen justicia?
Ustedes, simples mortales, ¿juzgan con rectitud?
2 Más bien, en su corazón urden hacer el mal,
y luego actúan con violencia en la tierra.
3 Los impíos se desencaminan desde la matriz;
se descarrían y mienten desde que nacen.
4 Son venenosos como serpientes;
se tapan los oídos; son como un áspid sordo
5 que no escucha la voz de los magos,
de los hábiles encantadores.
6 Dios mío, ¡rómpeles los dientes!
Señor, ¡rómpeles a esos leones los colmillos!
7 ¡Que se diluyan, como el agua que corre!
¡Que sus saetas se hagan pedazos al dispararlas!
8 ¡Que se disuelvan como los caracoles!
¡Que sean como abortivos y jamás vean el sol!
9 ¡Que antes de darse cuenta ardan como espinos!
¡Que aun con vida el viento los arrebate!
10 Al verse vengados, los justos se alegrarán
y se empaparán los pies en la sangre del impío.
11 Entonces se dirá:
«Ciertamente, los justos serán recompensados;
ciertamente, hay un Dios que juzga en la tierra.»
Psalm 58
King James Version
58 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young 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.
8 As 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.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Psalm 58
English Standard Version
God Who Judges the Earth
To the choirmaster: according to (A)Do Not Destroy. A (B)Miktam[a] of David.
58 Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?[b]
Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
2 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
your hands (C)deal out violence on earth.
3 The wicked are (D)estranged from the womb;
they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
4 (E)They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
5 so that it (F)does not hear the voice of charmers
or of the cunning enchanter.
6 O God, (G)break the teeth in their mouths;
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
7 Let them (H)vanish like water that runs away;
when he (I)aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
8 Let them be like the snail (J)that dissolves into slime,
like (K)the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9 Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of (L)thorns,
whether green or ablaze, may he (M)sweep them away![c]
10 (N)The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
he will (O)bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Mankind will say, “Surely there is (P)a reward for the righteous;
surely there is a God who (Q)judges on earth.”
Footnotes
- Psalm 58:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
- Psalm 58:1 Or you mighty lords (by revocalization; Hebrew in silence)
- Psalm 58:9 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
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