The Just Judgment of the Wicked

DO you indeed speak righteousness, 

you silent ones?

Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?

No, in heart you work wickedness;

You weight out the violence of your

hands in the earth.

The wicked are estranged from the womb;

They go astray as soon as they are born,

spearking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent;

They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Which will not heed the voice of charmers,

Charming ever so skillfully.

Break their teeth in their mouth, 

O God!

Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!

Let them flow away as waters

which run continually;

When he bends his bow,

Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces,

Let them be like a snail which melts 

away as it goes.

Like a stillborn child of a woman,

that they may not see the sun.

Before your pots can feel the

burning thorns,

He shall take them away as with a whirlwind,

As in His living and burning wrath.

The righteous shall rejoice when the sees the vengeance;

He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

So that men will say,

" Surely there is a reward for the righteous;

Surely He is God who judges in the earth."