English Standard Version
Psalms 58:3
3The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
Psalms 58:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
- New International Version (NIV)Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
- New Living Translation (NLT)These wicked people are born sinners; even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.
Context of Psalms 58:3
1Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly? 2No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth. The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies. 4They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear, 5so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
Read all of Psalms 58Psalms 58:3 word by word
זֹ֣רוּ רְשָׁעִ֣ים מֵרָ֑חֶם תָּע֥וּ מִ֝בֶּ֗טֶן דֹּבְרֵ֥י כָזָֽב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 58:3
- Psalms 51:5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- Job 15:14What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
- Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
- Isaiah 48:8You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from before birth you were called a rebel.
- Ephesians 2:3among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
- Psalms 22:10On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God.
- Isaiah 46:3"Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb;
Commentaries on Psalms 58:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3The wicked are estranged from the womb - "This," says Dr. Kennicott, "and the next two verses, I take to be the answer of Jehovah to the question in the two first verses, as the Psalm 58:6, Psalm 58:7, and Psalm 58:8, are the answer of the psalmist, and the remainder contains the decree of Jehovah." He calls these wicked men, men who had been always wicked, originally and naturally bad, and brought up in falsehood, flattery, and lying. The part they acted…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3The wicked are estranged from the womb - The allusion here undoubtedly is to the persons principally referred to in the psalm - the enemies of David. But their conduct toward him suggests a more general reflection in regard to “all” the wicked as having the same characteristics. The psalmist, therefore, instead of confining his remarks to them, makes his observations general, on the principle that all wicked men have essentially the same character, and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3All humans are born with a tendency to sin (see Psalm 51:5). However, the wicked follow their sinful desires, while the godly struggle against them (Romans 7:19–23; James 4:1–10).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-53-5. describe the wicked generally, who sin naturally, easily, malignantly, and stubbornly.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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