Psalms 58:1
Do all of you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do all of you judge uprightly, O all of you sons of men?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
In Context
2Yea, in heart all of you work wickedness; all of you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Cross References
Numbers 11:16And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with you.
Deuteronomy 16:18Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
2 Samuel 23:3The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
Psalms 57:1Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusts in you: yea, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities pass over.
Psalms 72:1Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness unto the king's son.
Psalms 82:6I have said, All of you are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 58:1
It is the probable conjecture of some (Amyraldus particularly) that before Saul began to persecute David by force of arms, and raised the militia to seize him, he formed a process against him by course of law, upon which he was condemned unheard, and attainted as a traitor, by the great council, or supreme court of judicature, and then proclaimed "qui caput gerit lupinum—an outlawed wolf," whom any man might kill and no man might protect. The elders, in order to curry favour with Saul, having passed this bill of… Read the whole commentary →