| 1 | {To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam.} Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men? |
| 2 | Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. |
| 3 | The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies. |
| 4 | Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear; |
| 5 | Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely. |
| 6 | O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah. |
| 7 | Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted: |
| 8 | Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun. |
| 9 | Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning,—they shall be whirled away. |
| 10 | The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked: |
| 11 | And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. |