Psalms 58:2
(58:3) Even in [your] heart ye work injustice: on the earth do ye weigh out the violence of your hands.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 21:11(21:12) For they directed against thee evil: they devised a mischievous purpose, which they were not able to perform.
Psalms 94:20Can there be associated with thee the throne of destructive wickedness, which frameth mischief as a law?
Isaiah 10:1Woe unto those that decree decrees of unrighteousness, and the writers who write down wrongful things;
Isaiah 59:4No one admonisheth with righteousness, and no one executeth justice in truth; men trust in naught, and speak lies; they have conceived mischief, and bring forth wickedness.
Ezekiel 22:12Bribes they took within thee, in order to shed blood; interest and increase didst thou take, and thou didst acquire gain off thy neighbors by extortion: and me thou didst forget, saith the Lord Eternal.
Micah 3:1And I said, Hear, I pray you, O ye heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know what is justice?
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 →