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.

1 掌权者啊！你们真的讲公义吗*本句或译："你们默然不语，真的讲公义吗"？

你们真的按照正直审判世人吗？

2 不是的，你们心中策划奸恶；

你们的手在地上施行强暴*本句原文作"你们在地上称出你们手中的强暴"。

3 恶人一出母胎，就走上歧路；

他们一离母腹，就走偏了路，常说谎话。

4 他们的毒气好象蛇的毒气，

又像耳朵塞住的聋虺，

5 不听行法术者的声音，

就是极灵的咒语，也是无效。

6 　神啊！求你敲掉他们口中的牙齿；

耶和华啊！求你打断少壮狮子的颚骨。

7 愿他们像流水般消逝；

愿他们射箭的时候，箭头折断*本句原文意义不甚明确。

8 愿他们像蜗牛般蠕行消融，

如同妇人流产未见天日的胎儿。

9 你们用荆棘烧火，锅还未热，

他要用旋风把烧着的和未烧着的一起刮去。

10 义人看见仇敌遭报就欢喜；

他要在恶人的血中洗自己的脚。

11 因此，人必说："义人果然有善报；

在世上确有一位施行审判的　神。"