[1] Do you indeed speak righteousness, O gods? Do you judge with equity, O sons of men? [2] No, in heart you work unrighteousness; On earth you prepare a path for the violence of your hands. [3] The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak falsehood wander in error from birth. [4] They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear, [5] So that it does not hear the voice of charmers, Or a skillful caster of spells. [6] O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth; Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh. [7] Let them flow away like water that runs off; When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts. [8] Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along, Like the miscarriages of a woman which never behold the sun. [9] Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the living and the burning alike. [10] The righteous will be glad when he beholds the vengeance; He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. [11] And men will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; Surely there is a God who judges on earth!”
