There Is a God Who Judges on Earth
For the choir director. Al-tashheth. Of David. A Mikhtam.
Do you indeed speak righteousness, O gods?
Do you ajudge with equity, O sons of men?
2 No, in heart you awork unrighteousness;
On earth you bprepare a path for the violence of your hands.
3 The wicked are estranged afrom the womb;
These who speak falsehood bwander in error from birth.
4 They have venom like the avenom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
5 So that it adoes not hear the voice of bcharmers,
Or a skillful caster of spells.
6 O God, ashatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh.
7 Let them aflow away like water that runs off;
When he baims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.
8 Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along,
Like the amiscarriages of a woman which never behold the sun.
9 Before your apots can feel the fire of thorns
He will bsweep them away with a whirlwind, the living and the burning alike.
10 The arighteous will be glad when he bbeholds the vengeance;
He will cwash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 And men will say, “Surely there is a areward for the righteous;
Surely there is a God who bjudges on earth!”