Psalms 58:2
No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
In Context
1Do ye indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
3The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Cross References
Psalms 21:11For they intended evil against thee. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
Psalms 94:20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by statute?
Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness,
Isaiah 59:4No man sues in righteousness, and no man pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Ezekiel 22:12In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says lord LORD.
Micah 3:1And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 58:2-6
A Reproof to Wicked Judges. 1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. We have reason to think that this… Read the whole commentary →