- 1. To the Overseer. -- `Destroy not.' -- A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?
- 2. Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
- 3. The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
- 4. Their poison `is' as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
- 5. Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
- 6. O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
- 7. They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
- 8. As a snail that melteth he goeth on, `As' an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
- 9. Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
- 10. The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.
- 11. And man saith: `Surely fruit `is' for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'
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