Psalms 58:1
Do ye indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
In Context
2No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Cross References
Numbers 11:16And LORD said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them. And bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.
Deuteronomy 16:18Thou shall make judges and officers for thee in all thy gates, which LORD thy God gives thee, according to thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
2 Samuel 23:3The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me. He who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,
Psalms 57:1Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in thee. Yea, in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge until calamities be passed by.
Psalms 72:1Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness to the king's son.
Psalms 82:6I said, Ye are gods, and all of you sons of the Most High.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 58:1
It is the probable conjecture of some (Amyraldus particularly) that before Saul began to persecute David by force of arms, and raised the militia to seize him, he formed a process against him by course of law, upon which he was condemned unheard, and attainted as a traitor, by the great council, or supreme court of judicature, and then proclaimed "qui caput gerit lupinum—an outlawed wolf," whom any man might kill and no man might protect. The elders, in order to curry favour with Saul, having passed this bill of… Read the whole commentary →