>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/ps/58?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#0773a::c0773a) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/psalms/58.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Psalms/58.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/psa/58/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>This chapter is a psalm attributed to David, addressing the congregation and the unrighteous, expressing a plea for divine justice and recognition of God's role as the righteous judge on Earth. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>The chapter talks about how some people are very bad and do not listen to what is right, but God will help the good people and make sure everything is fair. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>The chapter speaks about the wickedness of people who do not act justly and are compared to venomous snakes that refuse to listen. It calls upon God to bring justice by removing the power of the wicked, and it emphasizes that the righteous will find joy in God’s judgment, knowing that there is a reward for living righteously. > >#Gospel/Justice #Gospel/Righteousness #Gospel/DivineJudgment ###### 1 1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? ###### 2 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. ###### 3 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. ###### 4 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; ###### 5 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. ###### 6 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord. ###### 7 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 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 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. ###### 10 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. ###### 11 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.