To the chief musician, al-taskith, a micktam of David
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📚✭✭Do you indeed speakrighteousness, O rulers?
Do you judge uprightly,
you sons of men?
2 📚✭No, in heart you devise
wickedness.
You 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 cobra
that has stopped up
its ear,
5 📚Which will not listen to the voice
of charmers,
charming ever so skillfully.
6 📚✭Break their teeth in their mouth,
O God!
Break out the fangs of the young lions,
O LORD!
7 📚Let them flow away like waters
which run continually.
When he bends his bow to
shoot his arrows,
let them be as though cut in pieces.
8 📚May they be like a snail
which melts away
as it goes along,
like a woman’s stillborn child,
so that they may not see
the sun.
9 📚Before your pots can feel the fire from
the thorns,
he will sweep them away
as with a whirlwind,
in living wrath.
10 📚✭The righteous will rejoice
when he sees this vengeance;
he will wash his feet in the blood
of the wicked,
11 📚✭So that a man will say,
“There really is a reward
for the righteous;
God really is one who judges
in the earth”.