Psalms 58:2
In the land you practise iniquity – all of you; violence do you dispense with your hands.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
In Context
1Do you speak what is right, you gods? With equity judge you your people?
3The wicked go astray from the womb liars take the wrong path from their birth.
Cross References
Psalms 21:11When they scheme against you and hatch evil plots – they will fail.
Psalms 94:20Can corrupt justice be your ally, framing mischief by statute?
Micah 3:1I also said: “Listen now, leaders of Jacob, judges of the house of Israel. Is it not your duty to know what is the right?
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 →