Psalms 58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
ASV Byzantine Text
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
5Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely.
Cross References
Numbers 23:24Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain.
Job 29:17And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Psalms 3:7Arise, O Jehovah; save me, O my God: For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; Thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
Psalms 17:12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Ecclesiastes 10:11If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.
Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
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 →