For the Chief Musician;
set to
Al-tashheth.
A Psalm
of David: Michtam.
1 Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out 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 arelike the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5 Which hearkeneth not 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, OLord.
7 Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
8 Let them beas a snail which melteth and passeth away:likethe untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.