Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness?

2 Nay, in heart ye work wickedness;

3 The wicked are estranged from the womb:

4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:

5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers,

6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:

7 Let them melt away as water that runneth apace:

8 Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away,

9 Before your pots can feel the thorns,

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:

11 So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: