Psalms 58:1
Do you speak what is right, you gods? With equity judge you your people?
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
In Context
2In the land you practise iniquity – all of you; violence do you dispense with your hands.
Cross References
Psalms 57:1Be gracious, O God, be gracious to me, for in you I take shelter. In your sheltering wings I take refuge, till ruin be over past.
Psalms 72:1Give the king, O God, your own spirit of justice your spirit of right to the son of the king,
Psalms 82:6It was I who appointed you gods, children of the Most High all of you.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 58:1
It is the probable conjecture of some (Amyraldus particularly) that before Saul began to persecute David by force of arms, and raised the militia to seize him, he formed a process against him by course of law, upon which he was condemned unheard, and attainted as a traitor, by the great council, or supreme court of judicature, and then proclaimed "qui caput gerit lupinum—an outlawed wolf," whom any man might kill and no man might protect. The elders, in order to curry favour with Saul, having passed this bill of… Read the whole commentary →