1[[To the Heavenly Worship Leader, Al-Tashkhet [do not destroy], Mikhtam [meaning disputed] of David [Beloved].]] Do you^2f indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you^2f judge uprightly, O you^2f sons of men?

2Yea, in heart your2f work wickedness; you^2f weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

4Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stops her ear;

5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

6Break their teeth, O God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD-Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate].

7Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bends [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

8As a snail [which] melts, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.

9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.

10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

11So that a man shall say, Truly [there is] a reward for the righteous: truly he is Elohim Shof’tim [God the Judge] in the earth.