Psalms 57:1-9

¹(58) For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If you° do indeed speak righteousness, then do you° judge rightly, you° sons of men.

²For you° work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.

³Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.

⁴Their venom is like that of a serpent; as that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

⁵which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor heed the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.

⁶God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.

⁷They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.

⁸They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

⁹Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.