| NET Bible | English Standard Version |
| 1For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David. Do you rulers really pronounce just decisions? Do you judge people fairly? | 1Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly? |
| 2No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth. | 2No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth. |
| 3The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born. | 3The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies. |
| 4Their venom is like that of a snake, like a deaf serpent that does not hear, | 4They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear, |
| 5that does not respond to the magicians, or to a skilled snake-charmer. | 5so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter. |
| 6O God, break the teeth in their mouths! Smash the jawbones of the lions, O LORD! | 6O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD! |
| 7Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass! | 7Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted. |
| 8Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun! | 8Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun. |
| 9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat. | 9Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away! |
| 10The godly will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked. | 10The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked. |
| 11Then observers will say, "Yes indeed, the godly are rewarded! Yes indeed, there is a God who judges in the earth!" | 11Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.” |
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