Psalms 58:2
Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
Young's Literal Translation
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 have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
Cross References
Psalms 21:11For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,
Psalms 94:20Is a throne of mischief joined [with] Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?
Isaiah 10:1Woe [to] those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.
Isaiah 59:4There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.
Ezekiel 22:12A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!
Micah 3:1And I say, 'Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the 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 →