1For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial.
2If ye do indeed speak righteousness, then do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men.
3For ye work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
4Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
5Their venom is like that of a serpent; as that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
6which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor heed the charm prepared skilfully by the wise.
7God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
8They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
9They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
10Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.