58 Do you really speak what is right when silent?^[b]
Do you judge fairly the children of humankind?^[c]
2 No, in your heart you plan injustices;
in the land^[d] you weigh out the violence of your hands.
³ The wicked are estranged from the womb.
They go astray from the belly, speaking lies.
⁴ Their venom is like snake venom;
They are like a deaf viper that closes its ear
⁵ so that it does not hear the voice of charmers
or the skilled caster of spells.
⁶ O God, break their teeth in their mouth.
Break off the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh.
⁷ Let them run away like water that runs off.
When he bends the bow, let his arrows be as though they were cut off.^[e]
8 Let them be like a snail that melts away as it goes;
like the stillborn of woman that do not see the sun.
⁹ Before your pots can feel the heat of a thornbush,
whether green or dry,^[f] he will sweep it away.^[g]
10 The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
¹¹ And people^[h] will say, “Surely there is a reward^[i] for the righteous.
Surely there is a God who judges in the land.”^[j]