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Folks, here's the deal: Psalms 58 is a prayer to God, asking him to judge the wicked and righteous alike. No malarkey. It starts by asking God to listen to their pleas, saying, "Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?" Then it goes on to say, "Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth." In other words, these guys are doing some real bad stuff, and the Psalmist is asking God to do something about it.

My father used to say, "If you've got a problem, it's better to ask for help than to try to solve it yourself." Well, that's what the Psalmist is doing here. He's saying, "Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD." That's a pretty tough prayer, but it's a plea to God to help out.

Then the Psalmist goes on to say, "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." In other words, the Psalmist is asking God to just make these guys disappear, poof! See here, Jack, the Psalmist has had it with these bad guys, and he wants God to dispense justice in a big way.

And then the Psalmist ends by saying, "Let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice." In other words, the Psalmist is saying, "Let the good guys rejoice when God takes care of the bad guys." Literally, c'mon, man! I'm not joking here. What was that? Justice for all! Or, uh, you know, justice for those who deserve it! Not gonna happen to anyone else, I tell you what. Excuse me.