| New King James Version | International Standard Version |
| 1To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not Destroy.” A Michtam of David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones? Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men? | 1How is it that by remaining silent you can speak righteously? How can you judge people fairly? |
| 2No, in heart you work wickedness; You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. | 2As a matter of fact, in your heart you plan iniquities! In the land your hands are violent! |
| 3The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. | 3The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth. |
| 4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear, | 4Their venom is like a poisonous snake; even like a deaf serpent that shuts its ears, |
| 5Which will not heed the voice of charmers, Charming ever so skillfully. | 5refusing to hear the voice of the snake charmer, the cunning enchanter. |
| 6Break their teeth in their mouth, O God! Break out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD! | 6God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; LORD, break the fangs of the young lions! |
| 7Let them flow away as waters which run continually; When he bends his bow, Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces. | 7May they flow away like rain water that runs off, may they become like someone who shoots broken arrows. |
| 8Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes, Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun. | 8May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman's stillborn baby, who never saw the sun. |
| 9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, He shall take them away as with a whirlwind, As in His living and burning wrath. | 9Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns— whether green or ablaze— wrath will sweep them away like a storm. |
| 10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, | 10The righteous person will rejoice when he sees your vengeance; when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked. |
| 11So that men will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; Surely He is God who judges in the earth.” | 11A person will say, "Certainly, the righteous are rewarded; certainly there is a God who judges the earth." |
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