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

¹Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

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

²No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

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

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

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

⁴Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

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

⁵which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

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

⁶Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

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

⁷Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

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

⁸Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

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

⁹Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

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.

¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;

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

¹¹so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”