Psalms 58:5

Without iniquity I ran and directed my course aright: awake to help me, and behold.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

In Context

4For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.

6And thou, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw nigh to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. Pause.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the rage of serpents, and the incurable rage of asps.

Isaiah 19:3And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them; and I will frustrate their counsel: and they shall enquire of their gods and their images, and + 19:3 Gr. the ventriloquists.them that speak out of the earth, and them that have in them a divining spirit.

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 →

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