Psalms 58:6
O God! break away their teeth in their mouth, The biters of the young lions, knock thou out, O Yahweh!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
5That will not hearken to the voice of whisperers, Though the wise one try to bind him with spells.
Cross References
Numbers 23:24Lo, a people, like a lioness, shall rise, And like a strong lion, shall rouse himself up; He will not lie down till he eat the torn, And the blood of the slain, he drink.
Job 29:17And I shivered the fangs of the perverse,—and, out of his teeth, I tare the prey.
Psalms 3:7Rise! Yahweh, Save me, my God. Surely thou hast smitten all my foes on the cheekbone, The teeth of the lawless, hast thou broken.
Psalms 17:12His likeness, is as a lion, that longeth to rend, and as a young lion, lurking in secret places.
Ecclesiastes 10:11If a serpent will bite, unless he is charmed, then there is nothing better for him that owneth a tongue.
Jeremiah 8:17For behold me! sending among you serpents—vipers which there is no charming,—And they shall fatally bite you declareth Yahweh.
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 →