1For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial.

2If ye do indeed speak righteousness, then do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men.

3For ye work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.

4Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.

5Their venom is like that of a serpent; as that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

6which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor heed the ¹⁰⁴charm prepared skilfully by the wise.

7God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.

8They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.

9They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

10Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.

11The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

12And a man shall say, Verily then there is ¹⁰⁵a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.