Psalm 58 Feb. 1 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of Do Not Destroy. A poem by David.  1Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men? 2No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth. 3The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies. 4Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear, 5which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skilful the charmer may be. 6Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh. 7Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt. 8Let them be like the path of a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun. 9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike. 10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; 11so that men shall say, Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.   

Commentary

58:1 Silent ones- There is a time to keep silence, but if we don’t speak out for the abused at times we are paralleled with those who are proactively abusive. So much evil happens because ‘good’ people do nothing.
58:10 Our natural unease at reading these kinds of things is a reflection of our underestimate of the seriousness of sin, and the desperate need which there is for justice to be done. If we have such a perspective, then we will rejoice to see it done at the last day.