1(For the one directing. Set to Do Not Destroy. Mikhtam Dovid)

2Do ye indeed decree tzedek, O elim (g-ds, g-dlike judges)? ⁷⁴
Do ye judge uprightly the Bnei Adam?

3No, in lev (heart) ye work wickedness;
ye weigh out the chamas (violence) of your hands in Ha'Aretz.

4The resha'im are perverted from the rekhem (womb);
gone astray from birth are they, speaking kazav (lie, falsehood).

5Their venom is like the venom of a nachash;
they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth its ear;

6That it may not pay heed to the voice of charmers,
casting spells ever so cunningly.

7Break their teeth, O Elohim, in their mouth;
tear out the fangs of the young lions, Hashem.

8Let them melt away like draining mayim;
when he bendeth his bow to shoot his khitzim (arrows), let them be crumbled to pieces.

9As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away;
like the stillborn child of an isha, that they may not see the shemesh.

10Before your sirot (pots) can feel the burning thorns,
may He with a whirlwind blow them away, both green and dry alike.

11The tzaddik shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance;
he shall wash feet in the dahm harasha.

12So that adam shall say, Verily there is a reward for the tzaddik;
verily yesh Elohim Shofetim ba'aretz (there is a G-d that judgeth in the earth).