The Psalms

[For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David.] Do you indeed speak righteousness, O gods? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

No, in heart you work unrighteousness; On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.

The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.

They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

So that it does not hear the voice of charmers, [Or] a skillful caster of spells.

O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth; Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.

Let them flow away like water that runs off; [When] he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.

[Let them be] as a snail which melts away as it goes along, [Like] the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.

Before your pots can feel [the fire of] thorns, He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

And men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; Surely there is a God who judges on earth!"