Psalms 58:5
And you, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw near to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. Pause. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
In Context
4Without iniquity I ran and directed my course aright: awake to help me, and behold. 1
6They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the rage of serpents, and the incurable rage of asps.
Isaiah 19:3And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them; and I will frustrate their counsel: and they shall enquire of their gods and their images, and + 19:3 Gr. the ventriloquists them that speak out of the earth, and them that have in them a divining spirit.
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 →