| 1 | For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam. Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? |
| 2 | Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. |
| 3 | The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are 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 hearkeneth not 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 Jehovah. |
| 7 | Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off. |
| 8 | [Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun. |
| 9 | Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike. |
| 10 | The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; |
| 11 | So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. |