1 DO you indeed speak righteousness. O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

2 Behold you all speak evil on earth, and your hands are soiled with injustice.

3 The wicked are known 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 stops its ear,

5 And will not listen to the voice of the whisperer, neither to the charmer nor to the wise.

6 Break their teeth in their mouths, O God; pull out the fangs of the lions, O LORD.

7 Let them be rejected as water which is contaminated; let God shoot his arrows until the wicked are destroyed.

8 Like the wax that melts, and drips before the fire, let them be destroyed: fire has fallen from heaven and they did not see; the light of truth has been given and they did not understand.

9 Let their thorns be increased, and fear of wrath shake them violently.

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the wicked,

11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous; verily there is a God that judges in the earth.