1To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?⇆ compare2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.⇆ compare3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.⇆ compare4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;⇆ compare5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.⇆ compare6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.⇆ compare7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.⇆ compare8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.⇆ compare9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.⇆ compare10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.⇆ compare11So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.⇆ compare