1To the Chanter Destroy not Michtam of David If your minds be upon righteousness in deed, then judge the thing that is right, O ye sons of men.
2But ye imagine mischief in your hearts, and your hands deal with wickedness.
3The ungodly are froward, even from their mother's womb: as soon as they be born, they go astray and speak lies.
4They are as furious as the serpent, even like the deaf Adder that stoppeth her ears.
5That she should not hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
6Break their teeth (O God) in their mouths, smite the chaft bones of the lions' whelps in sonder, O LORD.
7That they may fall away, like water that runneth a pace: and that when they shoot their arrows, they may be broken.
8Let them consume away like a snail, and like the untimely fruit of a woman, and let them not see the sunne.(Sonne)
9Or ever your thorns be sharp, that wrath shall take them away quick, like a stormy wind.
10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance, and shall wash his feet in the blood of the ungodly.
11So that men shall say, verily there is a reward for the righteous: doubtless, there is a God that judgeth the earth.