Psalms 58:6
Rise up to meet me, and see: even you, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Reach out to visit all nations. Do not take pity on all those who work iniquity.
Catholic Public Domain 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
5And it is neither my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord. I have run and gone directly, without iniquity.
Cross References
Numbers 23:24Behold, the people will rise up like a lioness, and lie down like a lion. But they will not lie down until they devour the prey and drink the blood of the slain.”
Job 29:17I crushed the jaws of the impious, and I took away prey from his teeth.
Psalms 3:7I will not fear the thousands of people surrounding me. Rise up, Lord. Save me, my God.
Psalms 17:12And he set darkness as his hiding place, with his tabernacle all around him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.
Ecclesiastes 10:11Whoever slanders in secret is nothing less than a snake that bites silently.
Jeremiah 8:17For behold, I will send among you serpents, king snakes, against which there is no charm, and they will bite you, says the 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 →