ASV(i)
1 For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam.
Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness?
Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? 2 Nay, 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 are born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:
[They are] like 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, O Jehovah. 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 be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away,
[Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun. 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns,
He will 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.
Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness?
Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? 2 Nay, 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 are born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:
[They are] like 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, O Jehovah. 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 be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away,
[Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun. 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns,
He will 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.