PSALM 58: If a dog bites you, read this psalm, it will also save you from similar danger.

 Its prayer is the prayer under Psalm 16.

Psalm 58

1 Do you rulers really give fair verdicts?
    Do you judge Adam’s descendants fairly?
2 No, you invent new crimes on earth,
    and your hands spread violence.

3 Even inside the womb wicked people are strangers to God.
    From their birth liars go astray.
4 They have poisonous venom like snakes.
    They are like a deaf cobra that shuts its ears
        
            or of anyone trained to cast spells.

6 O Elohim, knock the teeth out of their mouths.
    Break the young lions’ teeth, O Yahweh.
7 Let them disappear like water that drains away.
    When they aim their bows, let their arrows miss the target.
8 Let them become like a snail that leaves behind a slimy trail
    or like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9 Let God sweep them away
    faster than a cooking pot is heated by burning twigs.

10 Righteous people will rejoice when they see God take revenge.
    They will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.
11 Then people will say,
    “Righteous people certainly have a reward.
    There is an Elohim who judges on earth.”

PRAYER:

Psalm 16

1 Protect me, O El, because I take refuge in you.

2 I said to Yahweh,

    “You are my Adonay. Without you, I have nothing good.”

3 Those who lead holy lives on earth

    are the noble ones who fill me with joy.

4 Those who quickly chase after other gods multiply their sorrows.

    I will not pour out their sacrificial offerings of blood

        or use my lips to speak their names.

5 Yahweh is my inheritance and my cup.

    You are the one who determines my destiny.

6 Your boundary lines mark out pleasant places for me.

    Indeed, my inheritance is something beautiful.

7 I will praise Yahweh, who advises me.

    My conscience warns me at night.

8 I always keep Yahweh in front of me.

    When he is by my side, I cannot be moved.

9         That is why my heart is glad and my soul rejoices.

            My body rests securely

10 because you do not abandon my soul to the grave

    or allow your holy one to decay.

11 You make the path of life known to me.

    Complete joy is in your presence.

        Pleasures are by your side forever.