³ I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

¹⁸ Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.

²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,

³⁶ And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!

²⁰ for it hath been written in the book of Psalms: Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it, and his oversight let another take.

¹ Righteous `art' Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.

² Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root, They go on, yea, they have made fruit, Near `art' Thou in their mouth, And far off from their reins.

³ And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known me, Thou seest me, and hast tried my heart with Thee, Draw them away as sheep to slaughter, And separate them for a day of slaughter.

⁷ When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

³ The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,

⁴ And their might `is' firm.

⁵ In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.

⁶ Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.

⁷ Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;

⁸ They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

⁹ They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

²⁵ Their tower is desolated, In their tents there is no dweller.

⁸ For what `is' the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

¹⁸ Light he `is' on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.

¹⁵ `Cursed `is' the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put `it' in a secret place, -- and all the people have answered and said, Amen.

¹⁶ `Cursed `is' He who is making light of his father and his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

¹⁷ `Cursed `is' he who is removing his neighbour's border, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

¹⁸ `Cursed `is' he who is causing the blind to err in the way, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

¹⁹ `Cursed `is' he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

²⁰ `Cursed `is' he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

²¹ `Cursed `is' he who is lying with any beast, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

²² `Cursed `is' he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

²³ `Cursed `is' he who is lying with his mother-in-law, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

²⁴ `Cursed `is' he who is smiting his neighbour in secret, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

²⁵ `Cursed `is' he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

²⁶ `Cursed `is' he who doth not establish the words of this law, to do them, -- and all the people have said, Amen.