2  Do ye indeed decree tzedek, O elim (g-ds, g-dlike judges)?*Ex 22:28 [27]

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).