Psalms 58:3
For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
In Context
2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. 1
4Without iniquity I ran and directed my course aright: awake to help me, and behold. 1
Cross References
Job 15:14For who, being a mortal, is such that he shall be blameless? or, who that is born of a woman, that he should be just?
Psalms 51:5Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from your dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause. 1
Proverbs 22:15Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are then far from him.
Isaiah 48:8You have neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened your ears: for I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and would be called a transgressor even from the womb.
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 →