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Prayer for the Punishment of the Wicked.
For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth.
A Psalm of David. Michtam. |
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1 Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness?
Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of Adam?
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2 No, in heart ye work wickedness;
Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
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3 The wicked are estranged from the womb:
They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
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Are estranged – By heredity. R3133:3
They go astray – The image of God has largely given place to the image of Satan. R3773:6
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4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:
They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
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5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers,
Charming never so wisely.
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6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:
Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
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7 Let them melt away as water that runneth apace:
When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
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8 Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away,
Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
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9 Before your pots can feel a thorn,
He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
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10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
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11 So that men shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous:
Truly there is a God that judgeth in the earth. |
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