Psalms 58:2
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
In Context
3The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Cross References
Psalms 21:11For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.
Psalms 94:20Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?
Isaiah 10:1Woe unto them that decree iniquitous decrees, and to the writers that prescribe oppression,
Isaiah 59:4none calleth for justice, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Ezekiel 22:12In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Micah 3:1And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?
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 →