| International Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1How is it that by remaining silent you can speak righteously? How can you judge people fairly? | 1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David. Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men? |
| 2As a matter of fact, in your heart you plan iniquities! In the land your hands are violent! | 2No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth. |
| 3The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth. | 3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth. |
| 4Their venom is like a poisonous snake; even like a deaf serpent that shuts its ears, | 4Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears, |
| 5refusing to hear the voice of the snake charmer, the cunning enchanter. | 5refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell. |
| 6God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; LORD, break the fangs of the young lions! | 6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions. |
| 7May they flow away like rain water that runs off, may they become like someone who shoots broken arrows. | 7May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted. |
| 8May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman's stillborn baby, who never saw the sun. | 8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun. |
| 9Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns— whether green or ablaze— wrath will sweep them away like a storm. | 9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away. |
| 10The righteous person will rejoice when he sees your vengeance; when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked. | 10The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked. |
| 11A person will say, "Certainly, the righteous are rewarded; certainly there is a God who judges the earth." | 11Then men will say, “There is surely a reward for the righteous! There is surely a God who judges the earth!” |
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