Psaumes 58.3
New International Version

Condamnation des juges injustes

¹ Do you rulers indeed speak justly?
Do you judge people with equity?

² No, in your heart you devise injustice,
and your hands mete out violence on the earth.

³ Even from birth the wicked go astray;
from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.

⁴ Their venom is like the venom of a snake,
like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,

⁵ that will not heed the tune of the charmer,
however skillful the enchanter may be.

⁶ Break the teeth in their mouths, O God;
Lord, tear out the fangs of those lions!

⁷ Let them vanish like water that flows away;
when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall short.

⁸ May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along,
like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.

⁹ Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns —
whether they be green or dry — the wicked will be swept away.

¹⁰ The righteous will be glad when they are avenged,
when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.

¹¹ Then people will say,
“Surely the righteous still are rewarded;
surely there is a God who judges the earth.”