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—