1. Do you rulers really pronounce just decisions?Do you judge people fairly?
2. No! You plan how to do what is unjust;you deal out violence in the earth.
3. The wicked turn aside from birth;liars go astray as soon as they are born.
4. Their venom is like that of a snake,like a deaf serpent that does not hear,
5. that does not respond to the magicians,or to a skilled snake-charmer.
6. O God, break the teeth in their mouths!Smash the jawbones of the lions, O Lord!
7. Let them disappear like water that flows away!Let them wither like grass!
8. Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along!Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!