2Do ye indeed speak as a righteous company?

Do ye judge with equity the sons of men?

3Yea, in heart ye work wickedness;

Ye weigh out in the earth the violence of your hands.

4The wicked are estranged from the womb;

The speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.

5Their venom is like the venom of a serpent;

They are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;

6Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers,

Or of the most cunning binder of spells.

7Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth;

Break out the cheek-teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

8Let them melt away as water that runneth apace;

When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

9Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away;

Like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.

10Before your pots can feel the thorns,

He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.

11The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance;

He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

12And men shall say: ‘Verily there is a reward for the righteous;

Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.’