1 To the Overseer. -- `Destroy not.` -- A secret treasure, by  David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly  ye judge, O sons of men?
         
                                
                        2 Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence  of your hands ye ponder.
         
                                
                        3 The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have  erred from the belly, speaking lies.
         
                                
                        4 Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp  shutting its ear,
         
                                
                        5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer  of charms most skilful.
         
                                
                        6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of  young lions break down, O Jehovah.
         
                                
                        7 They are melted as waters, They go up and down for  themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.