Psalms 58:3
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
Brenton Septuagint
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
2Deliver me from mine enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me.
Cross References
Job 15:14For who, being a mortal, is such that he shall be blameless? or, who that is born of a woman, that he should be just?
Psalms 51:5Thou hast loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.
Proverbs 22:15Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are then far from him.
Isaiah 48:8Thou hast neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened thine ears: for I knew that thou wouldest surely deal treacherously, and wouldest be called a transgressor even from the womb.
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 →