Psalms 58:6
O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
Majority Standard Bible
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 tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.
7May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.
Cross References
Numbers 23:24Behold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”
Job 29:17I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
Psalms 3:7Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
Psalms 17:12like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
Ecclesiastes 10:11If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
Jeremiah 8:17“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will 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 →