¹Zborovođi. Po napjevu "Ne pogubi!" Davidov. Miktam.

¹{To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam.} Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?

²Zar doista krojite pravdu, vi moćni, zar sudite pravo, sinovi ljudski?

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

³Ne, već bezakonje smišljeno činite, po zemlji vam ruke dijele nepravde.

³The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

⁴Na krivu su putu bezbošci od krila majčina, na krivu su putu lašci od utrobe.

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

⁵U njima je otrov kao u zmije, kao u ljutice što uši začepljuje

⁵Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely.

⁶da glas čarobnjakov ne čuje ni glas bajača vješta bajanju.

⁶O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

⁷O Bože, polomi im zube u ustima; razbij, o Jahve, čeljusti lavićima!

⁷Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:

⁸K'o vode što hitro otječu neka se razliju, k'o zgažena trava neka se osuše.

⁸Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.

⁹Nek' budu k'o puž koji se pužuć' rastoči, k'o pometnut plot nek' sunca ne vide.

⁹Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, -- they shall be whirled away.

¹⁰Prije nego vam kotlovi trnje osjete, dok je zeleno, neka ga vihor odnese.

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

¹¹Radostan će biti pravednik kad ugleda odmazdu, noge će prati u krvi zlotvora.

¹¹And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.

¹²I reći će ljudi: "Pravednik plod svoj ima! Još ima Boga da sudi na zemlji!"