Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PSALM 58 (VERSION 1), by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE First Line: And call ye this to utter what is just Last Line: "there is a god that carves to each his own." | ||||||||
And call ye this to utter what is just You that of justice hold the sovereign throne? And ye this, to yield, O sons of dust, To wronged brethren every man his own? O no! It is your long malicious will Now to the world to make by practice known With whose oppression you the balance fill: Just to yourselves, indifferent else to none. But what could they, who even in birth declined From truth and right to lies and injuries? To show the venom of their cankered mind The adder's image scarcely can suffice; Nay, scarce the aspic nay with them contend, On whom the charmer all in vain applies His skilfull's spells, aye missing of his end, While she, self-deaf and unaffected, lies. Lord, crack their teeth! Lord, crush these lions' jaws! So let them sink as water in the sand. When deadly bow their aiming fury draws, Shiver the shaft ere past the shooter's hand. So make them melt as the dishoused snail, Or as the embryo whose vital band Breaks ere it holds, and formless eyes do fail To see the sun, though brought to lightful land. O let their brood, a brood of springing thorns, Be by untimely rooting overthrown; Ere bushes waxed, they pricking horns, As fruits yet green are oft by tempest blown. The good with gladness this revenge shall see And bathe his feet in blood of wicked one While all shall say, "The just rewarded be; There is a God that carves to each his own." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PSALM 121 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PSALM 136 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PSALM 139 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PSALM 8. MAN'S PLACE IN CREATION by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE DEBORAH: THE SONG OF DEBORAH by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE ECCLESIASTES by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE ECCLESIASTES: THE LIGHT IS SWEET by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE ELIJAH AND THE PRIESTS OF BAAL: IN A TIME OF FAMINE by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE EXODUS 15. SONG OF ISRAEL FOR THE OVERTHROW OF EGYPT IN THE RED SEA by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |
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