## 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!"