12God judges judges. God denounces leaders who establish and maintain a corrupt order instead of being agents of his justice.
2 You gods, are your decrees just, and are your judgments upright?
3 No, you willfully commit crimes
4 Even from the womb the wicked go astray
5 They are poisonous like deadly snakes, deaf as the adder 6 that blocks its ears so as not to hear the charmers voice casting spells.
7 Break the teeth in their mouths, O God
8 Let them vanish like spilled water
9 Let them be like snails that sink into slime, like untimely births that never see the sun. 10 Like green grass that is burned before the thorns are dry let them be swept away!
11 The upright will rejoice when they are avenged
12 Then will people say, Surely the righteous are rewarded