Psalm 58:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ Let them vanish like water that runs away;
    like grass let them be trodden down^[a] and wither.
⁸ Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime;
    like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.
⁹ Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns,
    whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!