
58 - Si vere utique

1   Do you indeed decree righteousness, O you rulers, 🞙
    and do you judge uprightly, O children of men?

2   No, you devise evil in your heart, 🞙
    and on the earth your hands deal out violence.

3   The ungodly err even from their mother’s womb; 🞙
    as soon as they are born, they go astray and speak lies.

4   They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, 🞙
    even like the deaf adder that stops its ears,

5   Which refuses to hear the voice of the charmer, 🞙
    no matter how skillful his charming.

6   Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths; 🞙
    smite the jawbones of the ungodly. 

7   Let them fall away like water that runs off; 🞙
    let them wither like the grass that is trodden underfoot.

8   Let them melt away like a snail, 🞙
    and be like a stillborn child that does not see the sun.

9   Before they bear fruit, let them be cut off like a briar; 🞙
    let them be like thorns and weeds that are swept away.

10  The righteous shall rejoice when they see the vengeance; 🞙
        they shall wash their feet in the blood of the ungodly.

11  So that people shall say, “Truly, there is a reward for the righteous; 🞙
    surely, there is a God who judges the earth.”
