• There Is a God Who Judges on Earth

  • 1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O gods? Do you judge with equity, O sons of men?
  • 2 No, in heart you work unrighteousness; On earth you prepare a path for the violence of your hands.
  • 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak falsehood wander in error from birth.
  • 4 They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
  • 5 So that it does not hear the voice of charmers, Or a skillful caster of spells.
  • 6 O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth; Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh.
  • 7 Let them flow away like water that runs off; When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.
  • 8 Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along, Like the miscarriages of a woman which never behold the sun.
  • 9 Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the living and the burning alike.
  • 10 The righteous will be glad when he beholds the vengeance; He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
  • 11 And men will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; Surely there is a God who judges on earth!”