1For the choir director; al tashcheth; a miktam by David. Do you rulers really give fair verdicts? Do you judge Adam's descendants fairly?
2No, you invent new crimes on earth, and your hands spread violence.
3{Even} inside the womb wicked people are strangers {to God}. From their birth liars go astray.
4They have poisonous venom like snakes. They are like a deaf cobra that shuts its ears
5so that it cannot hear the voice of a snake charmer or of anyone trained to cast spells.
6O God, knock the teeth out of their mouths. Break the young lions' teeth, O Lord.
7Let them disappear like water that drains away. When they aim their bows, let their arrows miss the target.
8Let them become like a snail that leaves behind a slimy trail or like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9Let {God} sweep them away faster than a cooking pot is heated by burning twigs.
10Righteous people will rejoice when they see {God} take revenge. They will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.
11Then people will say, "Righteous people certainly have a reward. There is a God who judges on earth."