David reproves wicked judges—They go astray and speak lies.

 DO ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye ^ajudge^• uprightly, O ye sons of men?

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

 The wicked are estranged from the ^awomb^•: they go ^bastray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

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

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

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

 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.

 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.

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

 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the ^ablood^• of the wicked.

 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a ^areward for the righteous: verily he is a God that ^bjudgeth in the earth.