Devotional for March 10

St. Paul's UMC - Tarzana, California

Read Psalms 58-60

 

Psalm 58 (Modern English Version)

¹ Do you truly speak righteousness, O heavenly gods? Do you judge uprightly, O earthly men? ² Indeed, in the heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

³ The wicked are estranged from the womb onward; those who speak lies go astray from birth. ⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that plugs its ear, and will not listen to voice of the charmers, even the best and wisest enchanter.

⁶ Break their teeth in their mouth, O God; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord. ⁷ May they melt away as waters which run continually; when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be trodden under. ⁸ May they become as a snail that melts as it goes, like the untimely birth of a woman, may they not see the sun.

⁹ Before your pots can feel the thorns’ heat, green or burning, may He sweep them away. ¹⁰ The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; ¹¹ and people will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on the earth.”