1To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David. Will you indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men? 2Yes, in heart you work the evil, you weigh the violence of your hands in the land. 3The wicked are estranged from the womb; [they go] astray from the womb, speaking lies. 4Their poison [is] like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder, he stops his ear, 5which will not listen to the charmer's voice, a skillful caster of spells. 6O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the big teeth of the young lions, O LORD. 7Let them melt away like waters; they run off to them; he bends his arrows, [let them be] as though [they were] cut off. 8[Let them be] as a snail goes [into] melting; [as] a miscarriage of a woman, they do not see the sun. 9Before your pots can feel the thorns, whether green or glowing, He shall sweep it away. 10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11And man shall say, Truly, [there is] a reward for the righteous; truly, [there is] a God judging in the earth.