1. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?

1. Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

2. Yea, in heart ye work wickedness;

2. ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

3. The wicked are estranged from the womb:

3. they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

4. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:

4. they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

5. which will not hearken to the voice of charmers,

5. charming never so wisely.

6. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:

6. break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.

7. Let them melt away as waters which run continually:

7. when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows,

7. let them be as cut in pieces.

8. As a snail which melteth,

8. let every one of them pass away:

8. like the untimely birth of a woman,

8. that they may not see the sun.

9. Before your pots can feel the thorns,

9. he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

10. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:

10. he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

11. So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:

11. verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.