1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

1 掌权者啊！ 你们真的讲公义吗（本句或译： "你们默然不语， 真的讲公义吗"）？你们真的按照正直审判世人吗？

2 不是的， 你们心中策划奸恶； 你们的手在地上施行强暴（本句原文作"你们在地上称出你们手中的强暴"）。

3 恶人一出母胎， 就走上歧路； 他们一离母腹， 就走偏了路， 常说谎话。

4 他们的毒气好像蛇的毒气， 又像耳朵塞住的聋虺，

5 不听行法术者的声音， 就是极灵的咒语， 也是无效。

6 神啊！ 求你敲掉他们口中的牙齿； 耶和华啊！ 求你打断少壮狮子的颚骨。

7 愿他们像流水般消逝； 愿他们射箭的时候， 箭头折断（本句原文意义不甚明确）。

8 愿他们像蜗牛般蠕行消融， 如同妇人流产未见天日的胎儿。

9 你们用荆棘烧火， 锅还未热， 他要用旋风把烧着的和未烧着的一起刮去。

10 义人看见仇敌遭报就欢喜； 他要在恶人的血中洗自己的脚。

11 因此， 人必说： "义人果然有善报； 在世上确有一位施行审判的 神。"