Psalms 58:6
Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, LORD.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
In Context
5which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.
7Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
Cross References
Numbers 23:24Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”
Job 29:17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Psalms 3:7Arise, LORD! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
Psalms 17:12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Ecclesiastes 10:11If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.
Jeremiah 8:17“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says the LORD.
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 →