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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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