Opening the chapter…
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(For the one directing. Set to Do Not Destroy. Mikhtam Dovid)
Do ye indeed decree tzedek, O elim (g-ds, g-dlike judges)? Do ye judge uprightly the Bnei Adam?
No, in lev (heart) ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the chamas (violence) of your hands in Ha'Aretz.
The resha'im are perverted from the rekhem (womb); gone astray from birth are they, speaking kazav (lie, falsehood).
Their venom is like the venom of a nachash; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth its ear;
That it may not pay heed to the voice of charmers, casting spells ever so cunningly.
Break their teeth, O Elohim, in their mouth; tear out the fangs of the young lions, Hashem.
Let them melt away like draining mayim; when he bendeth his bow to shoot his khitzim (arrows), let them be crumbled to pieces.
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away; like the stillborn child of an isha, that they may not see the shemesh.
Before your sirot (pots) can feel the burning thorns, may He with a whirlwind blow them away, both green and dry alike.
The tzaddik shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash feet in the dahm harasha.
So that adam shall say, Verily there is a reward for the tzaddik; verily yesh Elohim Shofetim ba'aretz (there is a G-d that judgeth in the earth).
The Orthodox Jewish Bible - Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha - The Holy Bible. Copyright © 2002-2011, 2021, 2024 Artists for Israel International. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source: eBible.org (engojb). Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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