Psalms 58:2

Psalms 58:2 in other translations

What does Psalms 58:2 mean?

Psalms 58:2 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Psalms 58:2

• Psalms 94:20

  Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

• Isaiah 10:1

  Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

• Ecclesiastes 3:16

  And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

• Micah 3:1-3

  And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

• Ezekiel 22:27

  Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

• Malachi 3:15

  And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

• Jeremiah 22:16-17

  He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord. But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

• Micah 3:9-12

  Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us. Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

• Isaiah 59:4-6

  None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

• Psalms 21:11

  For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

• Isaiah 26:7

  The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

• Ezekiel 22:12

  In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

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Context

• Psalms 58:1

  To the chief Musician, Al–taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

• Psalms 58:2

  Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

• Psalms 58:3

  The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

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