1. To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2. Yes, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3. The wicked are estranged from their birth 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] stoppeth her ear;
5. Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never 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 bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8. As a snail [which] melteth, 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, both living, and in [his] wrath.
10. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11. So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the righteous verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.