Psalm 57 — The Holy Bible

For the End; corrupt not; by David; for a pillar inscription.

If, then, you truly speak of righteousness,

Do you judge rightly, O you sons of men?

For in your heart you work lawlessness in the earth;

Your hands weave unrighteousness.

Sinners are alienated from the womb;

From birth they are led astray; they speak lies.

Their anger is according to the likeness of a serpent;

Like a deaf asp that stops its ears,

Which will not listen to the sound of charms,

Nor to an enchantment of a skillful charmer.

God shattered their teeth in their mouths;

The Lord broke the teeth of the lions.

They shall pass along like water running through;

He will bend His bow until they are weakened.

Like melting wax they will be destroyed;

Fire fell on them, and they never saw the sun.

Before your thorns are aware of its prickly shrub,

He will swallow you up, as if you were alive, as if in His anger.

A righteous man shall be glad when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly;

He shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

A man will say, “If indeed there is fruit for the righteous man,

Then it is God who judges them on the earth.”