## Psalms Chapter 58

###### Psalms 58:1
[Psalms 58:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/58:1)

לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ אַל־תַּשְׁחֵ֗ת לְדָוִ֥ד מִכְתָּֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
To the chief Musician, Al-tashĥet, A Mikhtam of David.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For the conductor — "Do not destroy [me]" — a michtam of David.


###### Psalms 58:2
[Psalms 58:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/58:2)

הַאֻמְנָ֗ם אֵ֣לֶם צֶ֭דֶק תְּדַבֵּר֑וּן מֵישָׁרִ֥ים תִּ֝שְׁפְּט֗וּ בְּנֵ֣י אָדָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Do you indeed speak righteousness in private? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(in reference to Avner's not defending David to Saul, when David had demonstrated that he bore Saul no ill [viz. I Samuel 26:14])]. In truth, has there been hidden [from your mouth] the righteousness [i.e., vindication (of me)] that you [should] have spoken [to Saul], the justness [whereby] you [should] have judged men [i.e., me]?


###### Psalms 58:3
[Psalms 58:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/58:3)

אַף־בְּלֵב֮ עוֹלֹ֢ת תִּפְעָ֫ל֥וּן בָּאָ֡רֶץ חֲמַ֥ס יְ֝דֵיכֶ֗ם תְּפַלֵּסֽוּן׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
No, in your hearts you work wickedness; your hands deal out violence on the earth.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[And, what is more,] even in [your own] heart, you plot wrong [against me]; in the [midst of] the land, your hands weighten violence.


###### Psalms 58:4
[Psalms 58:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/58:4)

זֹ֣רוּ רְשָׁעִ֣ים מֵרָ֑חֶם תָּע֥וּ מִ֝בֶּ֗טֶן דֹּבְרֵ֥י כָזָֽב׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they err from birth, speaking lies.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The wicked have become estranged [from G d] from the womb. The speakers of deceit have strayed [from G d] from the womb.


###### Psalms 58:5
[Psalms 58:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/58:5)

חֲמַת־לָ֗מוֹ כִּדְמ֥וּת חֲמַת־נָחָ֑שׁ כְּמוֹ־פֶ֥תֶן חֵ֝רֵ֗שׁ יַאְטֵ֥ם אׇזְנֽוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Their poison is like the poison of a snake: they are like the deaf adder that stops its ear;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They have venom, like the venom of a serpent; [they are] like a deaf cobra, that closes its [other] ear


###### Psalms 58:6
[Psalms 58:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/58:6)

אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־יִ֭שְׁמַע לְק֣וֹל מְלַחֲשִׁ֑ים חוֹבֵ֖ר חֲבָרִ֣ים מְחֻכָּֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
so that it not hear the voice of the charmers [(which would keep it from biting)], the most expert of the conjurers [i.e., the charmers].


###### Psalms 58:7
[Psalms 58:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/58:7)

אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים הֲרׇס־שִׁנֵּ֥ימֽוֹ בְּפִ֑ימוֹ מַלְתְּע֥וֹת כְּ֝פִירִ֗ים נְתֹ֣ץ׀יְהֹוָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
O G d, crush their fangs in their mouth; crush the grinding teeth of lions, O L rd.


###### Psalms 58:8
[Psalms 58:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/58:8)

יִמָּאֲס֣וּ כְמוֹ־מַ֭יִם יִתְהַלְּכוּ־לָ֑מוֹ יִדְרֹ֥ךְ חִ֝צָּ֗ו כְּמ֣וֹ יִתְמֹלָֽלוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Let them melt away like waters which run continually: when he aims his arrows, let them be as if cut in pieces;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Let them be despised [unto themselves]; let them walk as in water [with feebleness]. Let Him draw His arrows [against them] so that they be cut down.


###### Psalms 58:9
[Psalms 58:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/58:9)

כְּמ֣וֹ שַׁ֭בְּלוּל תֶּ֣מֶס יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ נֵ֥פֶל אֵ֝֗שֶׁת בַּל־חָ֥זוּ שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
like the slimy track of a snail which disappears: like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[May they be] as a snail, walking meltingly; as a mole, never seeing the sun.


###### Psalms 58:10
[Psalms 58:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/58:10)

בְּטֶ֤רֶם**׀** יָבִ֣ינוּ סִּירֹתֵכֶ֣ם אָטָ֑ד כְּמוֹ־חַ֥י כְּמוֹ־חָ֝ר֗וֹן יִשְׂעָרֶֽנּוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall sweep them away as with a whirlwind, both the green and the burning.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Before your tender thorns [i.e., your children] understand [enough to become (i.e., develop into)] hardened thorns [like you] — with vigor, with wrath, He will whir them away!


###### Psalms 58:11
[Psalms 58:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/58:11)

יִשְׂמַ֣ח צַ֭דִּיק כִּי־חָזָ֣ה נָקָ֑ם פְּעָמָ֥יו יִ֝רְחַ֗ץ בְּדַ֣ם הָרָשָֽׁע׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The righteous one will rejoice when he sees revenge. He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.


###### Psalms 58:12
[Psalms 58:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/58:12)

וְיֹאמַ֣ר אָ֭דָם אַךְ־פְּרִ֣י לַצַּדִּ֑יק אַ֥ךְ יֵשׁ־אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים שֹׁפְטִ֥ים בָּאָֽרֶץ׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God who judges in the earth.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then all men [(who witness this revenge)] will say: There must be reward for the righteous, [for] verily, there is a G d who judges [i.e., exacts retribution of the wicked] in the land.