Psalms 58:2
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands on the earth.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
3The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Cross References
Psalms 21:11For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
Psalms 94:20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees
Isaiah 59:4No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Ezekiel 22:12In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbours by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord GOD.
Micah 3:1I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?
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 →