For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David.
Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Isa 11:3-5Psa 57:1Deu 16:18-19Psa 72:1-42Ch 19:6-72Sa 23:3Deu 1:15-16Jer 23:5-6
Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
No, in your heart you plot injustice. Isa 10:1Psa 94:20Ecc 3:16Ezk 22:27Mic 3:1-3Ezk 22:12Isa 26:7Isa 59:4-6
You measure out the violence of your hands on the earth.
The wicked go astray from the womb. Psa 51:5Isa 48:8Pro 22:15Eph 2:3Job 15:14Psa 22:10Isa 46:3
They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake, Jas 3:8Psa 140:3Ecc 10:11Jer 8:17Rom 3:13Deu 32:33Isa 11:8Job 20:14
like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, Jer 8:17Deu 18:11Isa 19:3
no matter how skillful the charmer may be.
Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Psa 3:7Hos 5:14Job 29:17Job 4:10-11Mic 5:8Psa 10:15Psa 17:12Ezk 30:21-26
Break out the great teeth of the young lions, LORD.
Let them vanish like water that flows away. Jos 7:5Psa 112:10Exo 15:15Isa 13:7Jos 2:9-11Psa 64:32Sa 17:10Psa 22:14
When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, Job 3:16Ecc 6:3Jas 1:10Psa 37:35-36Mat 24:35
like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, Pro 10:25Ecc 7:6Psa 118:12Isa 17:13Jer 23:19Isa 40:24Job 18:18Job 20:5-29
he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. Psa 68:23Psa 91:8Pro 11:10Rev 11:17-18Deu 32:43Psa 64:10Psa 107:42Jdg 5:31
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Isa 3:10Psa 67:4Psa 33:18Psa 64:9Mal 2:17Mal 3:14Rom 2:5Psa 98:9
Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”