Psalms 58:3
Rescue me from those who work iniquity, and save me from men of blood.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
In Context
2Rescue me from my enemies, my God, and free me from those who rise up against me.
4For behold, they have seized my soul. The strong have rushed upon me.
Cross References
Job 15:14What is man that he should be immaculate, and that he should appear just, having been born of woman?
Psalms 51:5You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.
Proverbs 22:15Foolishness has been bound to the heart of a child, and a rod of discipline shall cause it to flee.
Isaiah 48:8You have neither heard, nor known, nor were your ears open in that time. For I knew that you would transgress greatly, and so I called you a transgressor from the womb.
Ephesians 2:3And we too were all conversant in these things, in times past, by the desires of our flesh, acting according to the will of the flesh and according to our own thoughts. And so we were, by nature, sons of wrath, even like the others.
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 →