³ Evildoers go wrong all their lives;
    they tell lies from the day they are born.
⁴ They are full of poison like snakes;
    they stop up their ears like a deaf cobra,
⁵ which does not hear the voice of the snake charmer,
    or the chant of the clever magician.

⁶ Break the teeth of these fierce lions, O God.
⁷ May they disappear like water draining away;
    may they be crushed like weeds on a path.^[c]
8 May they be like snails that dissolve into slime;
    may they be like a baby born dead that never sees the light.
⁹ Before they know it, they are cut down like weeds;
    in his fierce anger God will blow them away
    while they are still living.^[d]

¹⁰ The righteous will be glad when they see sinners punished;
    they will wade through the blood of the wicked.
¹¹ People will say, “The righteous are indeed rewarded;
    there is indeed a God who judges the world.”