Psalms 58:2
If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
In Context
1Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.
3For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
Cross References
Psalms 21:11Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men.
Psalms 94:20Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment?
Isaiah 10:1Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:
Isaiah 59:4There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.
Ezekiel 22:12They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken usury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed thy neighbours: and then hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
Micah 3:1And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part 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 →