1. Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones?Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?
2. No, in heart you work wickedness;You 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 cobra that stops its ear,
5. Which will not heed the voice of charmers,Charming ever so skillfully.
6. Break their teeth in their mouth, O God!Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
7. Let them flow away as waters which run continually;When he bends his bow,Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.
8. Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9. Before your pots can feel the burning thorns,He shall take them away as with a whirlwind,As in His living and burning wrath.
10. The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance;He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
11. So that men will say,“Surely there is a reward for the righteous;Surely He is God who judges in the earth.”