[1] Do you really speak what is right, you gods? Do you really judge humans fairly? [2] No: in your hearts you plan injustice; your hands do violence on the earth. [3] The wicked backslide from the womb; liars go astray from birth. [4] Their venom is like a snake’s venom—like a deaf cobra’s—one that shuts its ears [5] so it can’t hear the snake charmer’s voice or the spells of a skillful enchanter. [6] God, break their teeth out of their mouths! Tear out the lions’ jawbones, LORD! [7] Let them dissolve like water flowing away. When they bend the bow, let their arrows be like headless shafts. [8] Like the snail that dissolves into slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, let them never see the sun. [9] Before your pots feel the thorns, whether green or burned up, God will sweep them away! [10] But the righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done, when they wash their feet in the blood of the wicked. [11] Then it will be said: “Yes, there is a reward for the righteous! Yes, there is a God who judges people on the earth.”
