Psalms 58:6
God, break their teeth, and smash the jaws of these lions, Lord.
Free Bible Version
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
5refusing to hear the voice of the snake charmers or the spellbinders.
7May they vanish like water that flows away; when they shoot their arrows may they miss their mark.
Cross References
Numbers 23:24Look! The Israelites go out hunting like a lioness; they chase like a lion. They don't rest until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of their dead victim.”
Job 29:17I broke the jaw of the wicked and made them drop their prey from their teeth.
Psalms 3:7Stand up for me, Lord! Save me, my God! Hit all my enemies on the cheek; break the teeth of the wicked!
Psalms 17:12They are like lions, longing to tear their prey apart; like fierce lions crouching in ambush.
Ecclesiastes 10:11If the snake bites the snake charmer before it's charmed, there's no benefit to the snake charmer!
Jeremiah 8:17Watch out! I'm sending snakes among you, vipers that can't be charmed. They will come and bite you, declares the Lord.
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 →