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1 (For the one directing. Set to Do Not Destroy. Mikhtam Dovid)
2 Do ye indeed decree tzedek, O elim (g-ds, g-dlike judges)?*
Do ye judge uprightly the Bnei Adam?
3 No, in lev (heart) ye work wickedness;
ye weigh out the chamas (violence) of your hands in Ha'Aretz.
4 The resha'im are perverted from the rekhem (womb);
gone astray from birth are they, speaking kazav (lie, falsehood).
5 Their venom is like the venom of a nachash;
they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth its ear;
6 That it may not pay heed to the voice of charmers,
casting spells ever so cunningly.
7 Break their teeth, O Elohim, in their mouth;
tear out the fangs of the young lions, Hashem.
8 Let them melt away like draining mayim;
when he bendeth his bow to shoot his khitzim (arrows), let them be crumbled to pieces.
9 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away;
like the stillborn child of an isha, that they may not see the shemesh.
10 Before your sirot (pots) can feel the burning thorns,
may He with a whirlwind blow them away, both green and dry alike.
11 The tzaddik shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance;
he shall wash feet in the dahm harasha.
12 So that adam shall say, Verily there is a reward for the tzaddik;
verily yesh Elohim Shofetim ba'aretz (there is a G-d that judgeth in the earth).
* 58:2 Ex 22:28 [27]