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For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. Michtam.1 Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness?Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?2 Nay, in heart ye work wickedness;Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.3 The wicked are estranged from the womb:They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers,Charming never so wisely.6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.7 Let them melt away as water that runneth apace:When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.8 Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away,Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.9 Before your pots can feel the thorns,He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;11 So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.