1 For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. 2 If ye do indeed speak righteousness, [Then] do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men. 3 For ye work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: Your hands plot unrighteousness. 4 Sinners have gone astray from the womb: They go astray from the belly: they speak lies. 5 Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; As [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears; 6 Which will not hear the voice of charmers, Nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise. 7 God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek teeth of the lions. 8 They shall utterly pass away like water running through: He shall bend his bow till they shall fail. 9 They shall be destroyed as melted wax: The fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun. 10 Before your thorns feel the white thorn, He shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath. 11 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: He shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner. 12 And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.
Psalms · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Psalm 57 (58) Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (2)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
Cross references (12)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in LXXUP.
- 1 Psalm 57:1; Isaiah 11:3–5; Psalm 72:1–4; Deuteronomy 16:18–19; Deuteronomy 1:15–16
- 2 Psalm 57:1; Isaiah 11:3–5; Psalm 72:1–4; Deuteronomy 16:18–19; Deuteronomy 1:15–16
- 3 Psalm 94:20; Isaiah 10:1; Ecclesiastes 3:16; Micah 3:1–3; Ezekiel 22:27
- 4 Psalm 51:5; Isaiah 48:8; Proverbs 22:15; Ephesians 2:3; Job 15:14
- 5 Psalm 140:3; James 3:8; Jeremiah 8:17; Romans 3:13; Ecclesiastes 10:11
- 6 Jeremiah 8:17; Deuteronomy 18:11; Isaiah 19:3
- 7 Psalm 3:7; Hosea 5:14; Psalm 10:15; Job 29:17; Job 4:10–11
- 8 Psalm 112:10; Joshua 7:5; Isaiah 13:7; Psalm 64:3; Exodus 15:15
- 9 Job 3:16; Ecclesiastes 6:3; Psalm 37:35–36; James 1:10; Matthew 24:35
- 10 Proverbs 10:25; Psalm 118:12; Ecclesiastes 7:6; Isaiah 17:13; Jeremiah 23:19
- 11 Psalm 68:23; Psalm 91:8; Proverbs 11:10; Revelation 11:17–18; Psalm 64:10
- 12 Psalm 67:4; Isaiah 3:10; Psalm 64:9; Psalm 33:18; Malachi 2:17
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 58.
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Because then this Psalm is singing of the Passion of the Lord, see what is the title that it hath: "at the end." The end is Christ. Why hath He been called end? Not as one that consumeth, but one that consummateth....
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
As also David says, "The alienated are sinners from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born." And it was on account of this that he, turning them to their Lord, prepared, in the spirit and power of Elias, a perfect people for the Lord.