New American Standard Bible 1995

Psalms 58:1-5

1 1 2Do you indeed 3speak righteousness, O 4gods? Do you 5judge 6uprightly, O sons of men?2No, in heart you 7work unrighteousness; On earth you 8weigh out the violence of your hands.3The wicked are estranged 9from the womb; These who speak lies 10go astray from 11birth.4They have venom like the 12venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,5So that it 13does not hear the voice of 14 15charmers, Or a skillful caster of spells.

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Notes

1. Psalms 58:1 Lit Do Not Destroy ↩
2. Psalms 58:1 Possibly Epigrammatic Poem or Atonement Psalm ↩
3. Psalms 58:1 Another reading is speak righteousness in silence ↩
4. Psalms 58:1 Or mighty ones or judges ↩
5. Psalms 58:1 Ps 82:2 ↩
6. Psalms 58:1 Or uprightly the sons of men ↩
7. Psalms 58:2 Mal 3:15 ↩
8. Psalms 58:2 Ps 94:20; Is 10:1 ↩
9. Psalms 58:3 Ps 51:5; Is 48:8 ↩
10. Psalms 58:3 Ps 53:3 ↩
11. Psalms 58:3 Lit the womb ↩
12. Psalms 58:4 Deut 32:33; Ps 140:3 ↩
13. Psalms 58:5 Jer 8:17 ↩
14. Psalms 58:5 Or whisperers ↩
15. Psalms 58:5 Eccl 10:11 ↩

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