Psalms 58:2
\58:1\Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
In Context
1To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David.
3\58:2\The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
Cross References
Psalms 21:11\21:10\Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
Psalms 94:20What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
Isaiah 10:1Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
Isaiah 59:4No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Ezekiel 22:12In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
Micah 3:1And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?
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 →