Psalms 58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
In Context
5which hearkens not to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely.
Cross References
Numbers 23:24Behold, the people rise up as a lioness, and as a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.
Job 29:17And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Psalms 3:7Arise, O LORD. Save me, O my God. For thou have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone. Thou have broken the teeth of the wicked.
Psalms 17:12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Ecclesiastes 10:11If the serpent bites before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.
Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says LORD.
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 →