Psalms 58:2
Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
In Context
3The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
Cross References
Psalms 21:11For they intended euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile.
Psalms 94:20Hath the throne of iniquitie fellowship with thee, which forgeth wrong for a Lawe?
Isaiah 10:1Woe vnto them that decree wicked decrees, and write grieuous things,
Isaiah 59:4No man calleth for iustice: no man contendeth for trueth: they trust in vanitie, and speake vaine things: they conceiue mischiefe, and bring foorth iniquitie.
Ezekiel 22:12In thee haue they taken giftes to shed blood: thou hast taken vsurie and the encrease, and thou hast defrauded thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
Micah 3:1And I sayd, Heare, I pray you, O heads of Iaakob, and yee princes of the house of Israel: should not ye knowe iudgement?
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 →