1 Al director musical. Sígase la tonada de «No destruyas». Mictam de David. ¡Ustedes, los gobernantes hablan de justicia y ni siquiera saben el significado de esa palabra! ¿Juzgan con rectitud al pueblo? 2 Todos sus actos son injustos: dan violencia en lugar de justicia. 3 Estos malvados nacieron pecadores; mienten desde el momento mismo de su nacimiento y se desvían. 4 Son venenosos como serpientes mortales, cobras que cierran los oídos 5 para no escuchar la música de los más hábiles encantadores. 6 Oh Dios; rómpele los colmillos. ¡Arráncales los dientes a estos leoncillos, Señor! 7 Que se desvanezcan como agua tragada por la tierra sedienta. Vuélvanse inútiles las armas en sus manos. 8 Que se disuelvan, como babosa rastrera; que no vean la luz, cual si fueran abortivos. 9 Dios raerá tanto a los viejos como a los jóvenes. Los destruirá más pronto de lo que tarda la olla en sentir el fuego de espinos en el fogón. 10 Los justos se regocijan al ver la venganza; al lavar sus pies en la sangre de los malvados. 11 Entonces al fin dirán todos que el bien recibirá recompensa, y que hay un Dios que juzga con justicia aquí en la tierra.
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Psalm 58 Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (11)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 57:1; Isaiah 11:3–5; Psalm 72:1–4; Deuteronomy 16:18–19; Deuteronomy 1:15–16
- 2 Psalm 94:20; Isaiah 10:1; Ecclesiastes 3:16; Micah 3:1–3; Ezekiel 22:27
- 3 Psalm 51:5; Isaiah 48:8; Proverbs 22:15; Ephesians 2:3; Job 15:14
- 4 Psalm 140:3; James 3:8; Jeremiah 8:17; Romans 3:13; Ecclesiastes 10:11
- 5 Jeremiah 8:17; Deuteronomy 18:11; Isaiah 19:3
- 6 Psalm 3:7; Hosea 5:14; Psalm 10:15; Job 29:17; Job 4:10–11
- 7 Psalm 112:10; Joshua 7:5; Isaiah 13:7; Psalm 64:3; Exodus 15:15
- 8 Job 3:16; Ecclesiastes 6:3; Psalm 37:35–36; James 1:10; Matthew 24:35
- 9 Proverbs 10:25; Psalm 118:12; Ecclesiastes 7:6; Isaiah 17:13; Jeremiah 23:19
- 10 Psalm 68:23; Psalm 91:8; Proverbs 11:10; Revelation 11:17–18; Psalm 64:10
- 11 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).
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.