1. Do you really speak what is right when silent? Do you judge fairly the children of humankind?
2. No, in your heart you plan injustices; in the land you weigh out the violence of your hands.
3. The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray from the belly, speaking lies.
4. Their venom is like snake venom; They are like a deaf viper that closes its ear
5. so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or the skilled caster of spells.
6. O God, break their teeth in their mouth. Break off the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh.
7. Let them run away like water that runs off. When he bends the bow, let his arrows be as though they were cut off.
8. Let them be like a snail that melts away as it goes; like the stillborn of woman that do not see the sun.
9. Before your pots can feel the heat of a thornbush, whether green or dry, he will sweep it away.
10. The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11. And people will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous. Surely there is a God who judges in the land.”