To the director: Do not destroy. A michtam of David.

Do you really speak justice silently? Do you judge uprightly, sons of man?

No, in your heart you work out wrongs on earth; your hands distribute violence.

The wicked stray from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, like a deaf adder that stops its ear.

That does not hear the voice of charmers, even a cunning binder of spells.

Elohim, shatter their fangs in their mouth; יהוה, tear out the great teeth of lions.

Let them dissolve like waters that run off; when he bends his bow, let them be blunted.

Like a snail that melts away as it goes, like a stillborn child of a woman that never sees the sun.

Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, he will whirl them away.

The righteous rejoices when he sees vengeance; he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked.

And man will say, 'Surely there is reward for the righteous; surely there is Elohim who judges in the earth.'