Psalms 58:5
refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
In Context
4Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
Isaiah 19:3Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.
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 →