Do ye speak Righteousness, indeed

Verse 1

Do ye speak righteousness, indeed, While ye confederate sit? Or is, ye sons of earthly men, Your judgment just, and fit?

Verse 2

Yea, rather foul, malicious deeds, Your wicked heart intends; Thus swayed, you openly weigh out The violence of your hands.

Verse 3

Degenerate race! that, from the womb, Strangers to virtue, rise; As soon as born, they go astray, And give themselves to lies.

Verse 4

Their words, like serpent's poison, wound; Deaf asps, they stop their ear;

Verse 5

The charmer's wisest charms are vain, They'll no instruction hear.

Verse 6

O God, their mouth, so used to blood, Of their sharp teeth disarm; Break the young lion's teeth, O Lord, Nor leave them power to harm.

Verse 7

Let them dissolve as mounts of snow Away, whose waters soak; May all his arrows when he brings Them to his bow, be broke.

Verse 8

As slimy snails which melt away, So may they wade each one; Like an untimely birth that dies And never sees the sun.

Verse 9

Quicker than thorns can seeth the pot, He'll seize on them alive; In his hot wrath away them chase, And with a whirlwind drive.

Verse 10

Such righteous vengeance will excite, The triumphs of the good; Who, victors o'er such wicked men, Shall wash their feet in blood.

Verse 11

Then men shall say, "sure for the just, There is a kind reward; Sure, there's a God, who judgeth right, And doth the earth regard."