Psalms 58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
King James Version
In Context
5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Cross References
Numbers 23:24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
Job 29:17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Psalms 3:7Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Psalms 17:12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Ecclesiastes 10:11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith 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 →