Psalm
To the director. “Do not bring to ruin.” Of David. Mikʹtam.*
2 How much, rather, do YOU with the heart practice outright unrighteousness in the earth,+
[And] prepare the road for the very violence of YOUR hands!+
3 The wicked ones have been perverts from the womb;+
They have wandered about from the belly onward;
They are speaking lies.+
4 The venom of theirs is like the venom of the serpent,+
Deaf like the cobra that stops up its ear,+
6 O God, knock out their teeth in their mouth.+
Break down the very jawbones of maned young lions, O Jehovah.
7 May they dissolve as into waters that go their way;+
May he bend [the bow for] his arrows as they collapse.+
8 Like a snail melting away he walks;*
Like a miscarriage of a woman they will certainly not behold the sun.+
9 Before YOUR pots feel the [kindled] bramble,+
The live green as well as the burning, he will carry them off as a stormy wind.+