¹ To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?¹²

1. Altaschith...: or, Destroy not
2. Michtam: or, A golden Psalm

² Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh 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.¹

1. as soon...: Heb. from the belly

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;¹²

1. like the poison: Heb. according to the likeness, etc
2. adder: or, asp

⁵ Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.¹

1. charming...: or, be the charmer never so cunning

⁶ Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

⁷ Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

⁸ As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

⁹ Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.¹

1. both...: Heb. as living as wrath

¹⁰ The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

¹¹ So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.¹

1. a reward...: Heb. fruit of the, etc