¹Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

¹{Načelniku godbe; kakor ‚Ne pogubi!‘ Davidova zlata pesem.} Ali res v molčanju govorite pravičnost? po pravici li sodite, sinovi človeški?

²Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

²Ne, v srcu počenjate hudodelstvo, v deželi tehtate rok svojih silovitost.

³The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

³Spačeni so brezbožniki od rojstva, tavajo od materinega telesa, laž govoreč.

⁴Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

⁴Strup imajo podoben kačjemu strupu, so kakor gluh gad, ki si maši uho,

⁵Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

⁵ki ne posluša glasu rotilcev, ne čarodeja, ki je vešč zagovoru.

⁶Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

⁶O Bog, zdróbi jim zobe v njih ustih, mladih levov kočnike izderi, GOSPOD!

⁷Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

⁷Stopé se naj kakor voda, ki se razteče; ko nastavi sovražnik pšice svoje, naj bodo, kakor bi jih bil kdo okrnil.

⁸As 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.

⁸Bodo naj kakor polž, ki se topi in gine, kakor žene splav, ki ni videl solnca.

⁹Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

⁹Še preden občutijo vaši lonci ogenj od trnja, odpravi Bog z vihrom surovo meso in žar.

¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

¹⁰Radoval se bo pravični, ko bo videl maščevanje, noge svoje bo umival v krvi brezbožnikovi.In ljudje poreko: Zares, je plačilo za pravičnega, zares, je Bog, ki sodi na zemlji.

¹¹So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

¹¹In ljudje poreko: Zares, je plačilo za pravičnega, zares, je Bog, ki sodi na zemlji.