In My Distress (120)

Do `you indeed speak righteousness, you / mighty ones?

Do `you judge blamelessly, you children / of mankind?

`No_, in your heart you / plot injustice.

You `measure out the vi’lence of your hands_ / in the earth. +

The `wicked go astray_ / from the womb.

`They are wayward as_ soon as they are born_, / speaking lies.

Their `poison is_ like the poison / of a snake,

`like a deaf_ cobra that_ / stops its ear,

which `does not listen to the / voice of charmers,

`no matter how skillful the_ charmer / may~ be.

(Ref)

`Break their teeth, O God_, / in their mouth.

`Break_ out the great teeth of the young_ / lions, LORD.

`Let them vanish like_ water that_ / flows away.

`When they draw the bow_, let their arrows / be made blunt.

`Let them be_ like a snail which melts and passes / a~ way,

`like the stillborn child_, who has not_ / seen the sun.

Be `fore your pots can feel the heat_ / of the thorns,

`whether green or burning, he will sweep_ / them away.

The `righteous shall rejoice_ when he / sees the vengeance.

`He shall wash his feet_ in the blood_ / of the wicked,

`so that people shall say, “Surely there is a reward_ / for the righteous.

`Surely there_ is a God who judges / the~ earth.”