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Psalms 58:2

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

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In Context

1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

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Cross References

Psalms 21:11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Psalms 94:20Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

Isaiah 10:1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

Isaiah 59:4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Ezekiel 22:12In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

Micah 3:1And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?

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 →

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