The psalm may best be described as a prayer against unjust judges.
As a lament against tyranny, the first half of the psalm rehearses a series of charges against wicked leaders and judges; and the second half is an imprecatory prayer (imprecatory psalms are those psalms that contain curses or prayers for the punishment of the psalmist's enemies), that they be obliterated in the end, the psalmist is certain that God will act with ultimate justice.
I. The Indictment of Unjust Leaders (58:1-5)
II. The Imprecation Against Unjust Leaders (58:6-11)
Psalm 58:1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
“O congregation”:
The leaders were silent when they should have spoken up for righteousness.
Psalm 58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the
Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Psalm 58:5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Psalm 58:8 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.
Psalm 58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Colossians 3:24
Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward
of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ."
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