Tree of Life Version
Psalms 58:3
3No, in heart you devise injustice. Your hands weigh out violence on earth.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Context of Psalms 58:3
1For the music director: “Do Not Destroy,” a Michtam of David. 2Do you really speak of justice, O “gods”? Do you judge with fairness, sons of man? No, in heart you devise injustice. Your hands weigh out violence on earth. 4The wicked are strangers from the womb. Speaking lies, they go astray from birth. 5Their venom is like a serpent’s venom, like a deaf cobra shutting its ear—
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 51:5For I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.
- Job 15:14“What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he could be righteous?
- Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but a rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
- Isaiah 48:8You have not heard; you never knew; even from long ago your ear has not been open. For I knew that you are treacherous, and from birth were called a rebel.
- Ephesians 2:3We too all lived among them in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind. By nature we were children of wrath, just like the others.
- Psalms 22:10Yet You brought me out of the womb, made me secure at my mother’s breasts.
- Isaiah 46:3“Listen to Me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, borne by Me from 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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