1. For the leader. Do not destroy. A miktam of David.
2. Do you indeed pronounce justice, O gods;do you judge fairly you children of Adam?
3. No, you freely engage in crime;your hands dispense violence to the earth.
4. The wicked have been corrupt since birth;liars from the womb, they have gone astray.
5. Their venom is like the venom of a snake,like that of a serpent stopping its ears,
6. So as not to hear the voice of the charmeror the enchanter with cunning spells.
7. O God, smash the teeth in their mouths;break the fangs of these lions, Lord!
8. Make them vanish like water flowing away;trodden down, let them wither like grass.
9. Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away,like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.