---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 58
verse_count: 11
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 58, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 58

*Wicked judges reproved Judgment of the wicked, To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David.*

**1** O ye indeed speak righteousness, 0 congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
**2** Yea. in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
**3** The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
**4** Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
**5** Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
**6** Break their teeth, O God. in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
**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** 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** Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
**10** The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
**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.