To the one who conducts: Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David.1Do you truly speak righteousness, O silence? Do you judge with uprightness, O sons of man?2Indeed, in heart you work injustice; in the land you weigh out violence with your hands.3The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from the belly, speaking lies.4Their rage is like the rage of a serpent, like the rage of a deaf cobra that shuts its ear.5Which does not hear the voice of the whisperers, of the one who unites spells, being wise.6O God, overthrow their teeth in their lip; tear out the teeth of lions, O LORD.7They flow away like water; they go about; he treads his arrow, and his arrows are like those that are circumcised.8Like a melting snail he goes; like the miscarriage of a woman, they do not see the sun.9Before they understand your pots, O Atad, like one alive, like burning anger he storms it.10The righteous one rejoices, for he has seen vengeance; he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked.11And man says, Surely there is fruit for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges in the land.