Psalms 58:6
(58:7) O God, break out their teeth in their mouth: the jaw-teeth of the young lions tear thou out, O Lord.
Leeser Tanakh
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
5(58:6) Which will not hearken to the voice of conjurers, yea, that of the wisest of all charmers.
Cross References
Numbers 23:24Behold, it is a people, that shall rise up as a lioness, and as a lion shall it raise itself: it will not lie down until it have eaten the prey, and have drunk the blood of the slain.
Job 29:17And I broke the cutting-teeth of the wrong-doer, and out of his teeth I cast down his prey.
Psalms 3:7(3:8) Arise, O Lord, help me, O my God; for thou smitest all my enemies upon the cheek bone: the teeth of the wicked dost thou break.
Psalms 17:12Every man is just like a lion that is greedy to tear his prey, and like a young lion lurking in a covert.
Ecclesiastes 10:11If the serpent do bite because no one uttered a charm, then hath the man that can use his tongue [in charming] no preference.—
Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I will send out against you serpents, basilisks, for which there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith 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 →