Psalms 58:6
And thou, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, 1 Draw nigh to visit all the heathen; 1 Pity not any that work iniquity. Pause. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
5Without iniquity I ran and directed my course aright: 1 Awake to help me, and behold. 1
7They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city. 1
Cross References
Numbers 23:24Behold, the people shall rise up as a lion’s whelp, 1 And shall exalt himself as a lion; 1 He shall not lie down till he have eaten the prey, 1 And he shall drink the blood of the slain.
Job 29:17And I broke the jaw teeth of the unrighteous; 1 I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth. 1
Psalms 3:7I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, 1 Who beset me round about. 1
Psalms 17:12And he made darkness his secret place: 1 Round about him was his tabernacle, 1 Even dark water in the clouds of the air. 1
Ecclesiastes 10:11If a serpent bite when there is no charmer’s whisper, 1 Then there is no advantage to the charmer. 1
Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you
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 →