1. "To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David." Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?
2. Yea, in heart you work wickedness; you prepare 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 shuts her ear;
5. Which will not listen to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely.
6. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7. Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as if cut in pieces.
8. As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9. Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, while living, and in his anger.
10. The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11. So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God that judges in the earth.