American Standard Version
Psalms 58:2
2Nay, in heart ye work wickedness;Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalms 58:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
- New International Version (NIV)No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
- New King James Version (NKJV)No, in heart you work wickedness; You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Context of Psalms 58:2
1Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. 3The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. 4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
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אַף־בְּלֵב֮ עוֹלֹ֪ת תִּפְעָ֫ל֥וּן בָּאָ֡רֶץ חֲמַ֥ס יְ֝דֵיכֶ֗ם תְּפַלֵּֽסֽוּן׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 58:2
- Psalms 21:11For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
- Ecclesiastes 3:16And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
- Isaiah 59:4None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
- Jeremiah 22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
- Ezekiel 22:12In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
- Micah 3:1And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice?
- John 11:47The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many signs.
- Psalms 94:20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?
- Isaiah 10:1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;
- Isaiah 26:7The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just.
Commentaries on Psalms 58:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness - With their tongues they had spoken maliciously, and given evil counsel. In their hearts they meditated nothing but wickedness. And though in their hands they held the scales of justice, yet in their use of them they were balances of injustice and violence. This is the fact to which the psalmist alludes, and the figure which he uses is that of justice with her scales or balances, which, though it might be the emblem of…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness - Whatever might be the outward appearances, whatever pretences they might make to just judgment, yet in fact their hearts were set on wickedness, and they were conscious of doing wrong. Ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth - It is difficult to attach any meaning to this language; the translators evidently felt that they could not express the meaning of the original; and they, therefore, gave what seems to be a…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-5The administrators of justice were furthering their own interests rather than those of the needy. The absence of justice gradually resulted in a violent society.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. This they did not design; but weigh ... violence--or give decisions of violence. Weigh is a figure to express the acts of judges. in the earth--publicly.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 58
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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