1. For the music director: “Do Not Destroy,” a Michtam of David.
2. Do you really speak of justice, O “gods”? Do you judge with fairness, sons of man?
3. No, in heart you devise injustice. Your hands weigh out violence on earth.
4. The wicked are strangers from the womb. Speaking lies, they go astray from birth.
5. Their venom is like a serpent’s venom, like a deaf cobra shutting its ear—
6. not hearing the voice of charmers, or a cunning spell binder.
7. O God, break their teeth in their mouths. Tear out the fangs of young lions, Adonai.