1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness;ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb:they go astray as soon as they be 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.