Dec 5, 2018
1 Do you rulers indeed speak
justly?
Do you judge people with equity?
2 No, in your heart you devise
injustice,
and your hands mete out violence on the
earth.
3 Even from birth
the wicked go astray;
from the womb they are wayward, spreading
lies.
4 Their venom is like the venom of a
snake,
like that of a cobra that has stopped its
ears,
5 that will not heed the tune of the
charmer,
however skillful the enchanter may
be.
6 Break the teeth
in their mouths, O God;
Lord, tear out the
fangs of those lions!
7 Let them vanish like water that flows
away;
when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall
short.
8 May they be like a slug that melts away as
it moves along,
like a stillborn child that never sees the
sun.
9 Before your pots
can feel the heat of the thorns—
whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be
swept away.[c]
10 The righteous will be glad when they
are avenged,
when they dip their feet in the blood of the
wicked.
11 Then people will say,
“Surely the righteous still are
rewarded;
surely there is a God who judges the
earth.”