Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge uprightly among men?
No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence
on the earth. Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they
are wayward and speak lies.
Their venom is like the venom of a snake,
like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears, that will not heed
the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.
Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; tear out, O Lord, the fangs
of the lions!
Let them vanish like water that flows away…
Then men will say, “Surely the righteous still are
rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”
Psalm 58:1-7; 11