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Psalms 58:2
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No! You plot injustice in your hearts. You spread violence throughout the land.
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
No, in heart you work wickedness; You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
No, in your heart you plan evil; you think up violent crimes in the land.
No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.
Yes, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
No, in your heart you devise wrongdoing; On earth you deal out the violence of your hands.
No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
For in herte ye worchen wickidnesse in erthe; youre hondis maken redi vnriytfulnessis.
No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
You are always planning evil, and you are brutal.
Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
[Rulers,] does your silence really speak justice? Are you judging people fairly?
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Do ye indeed speak as a righteous company? Do ye judge with equity the sons of men?
Yea, in heart you worke wickednesse; you waigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
No, in your heart you do what is wrong. You use your hands to hurt and destroy in the land.
No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
Behold you all speak evil on earth, and your hands are soiled with injustice.
No! You think only of the evil you can do, and commit crimes of violence in the land.
Aye! ye all do work, perversity, - Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence!
(57-3) For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
Nay, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
Nay, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your handes waygh as in a ballaunce wickednes vpon the earth.
No, you practice injustice in your hearts;with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the eretz.
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
No, in your heart you plan injustices; in the land you weigh out the violence of your hands.
Yes, in heart you work the evil, you weigh the violence of your hands in the land.
Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
But ye ymagin myschefe in youre hertes, and youre hondes deale with wickednesse.
No, in heart you practice injustice; On earth you clear a way for the violence of your hands.
No, in heart you work wickedness; You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
No, in heart you work unrighteousness; On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.
No, in heart you work unrighteousness;On earth you prepare a path for the violence of your hands.
Contextual Overview
To the director: To the tune "Don't Destroy." A miktam of David.
You judges are not being fair in your decisions. You are not judging people fairly. 2 No, you only think of evil things to do. You do violent crimes in this country. 3 Those wicked people started doing wrong as soon as they were born. They have been liars from birth. 4 Their anger is as deadly as the poison of a snake. They shut their ears like a deaf cobra 5 that does not listen to the music of the snake charmers, no matter how well they play.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
in heart: Psalms 21:11, Ecclesiastes 3:16, Isaiah 59:4-6, Jeremiah 22:16, Jeremiah 22:17, Ezekiel 22:12, Ezekiel 22:27, Micah 3:1-3, Micah 3:9-12, John 11:47-53
weigh: Psalms 94:20, Isaiah 10:1, Isaiah 26:7
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 25:1 - General Psalms 5:9 - inward Psalms 82:2 - judge Psalms 119:85 - which Proverbs 31:9 - General Isaiah 32:6 - and his heart Isaiah 59:6 - their works Isaiah 59:8 - judgment Jeremiah 19:15 - that they Daniel 11:27 - shall be to Habakkuk 1:4 - for Mark 7:21 - out John 7:24 - General John 8:15 - judge John 19:13 - and sat Acts 16:37 - They have Acts 21:35 - for Acts 23:3 - for Acts 24:25 - righteousness
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness,.... So far were they from speaking righteousness, and judging uprightly. The heart of man is wickedness itself; it is desperately wicked, and is the shop in which all wickedness is wrought; for sinful acts are committed there as well as by the tongue and hand, as follows. This phrase also denotes their sinning; not with precipitancy, and through surprise; but with premeditation and deliberation; and their doing it heartily, with good will, and with allowance, and their continuance and constant persisting in it;
ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth; they were guilty of acts of violence and oppression, which, of all men, judges should not be guilty of; whose business it is to plead the cause of the injured and oppressed, to right their wrongs, and to protect and defend them: these they pretended to weigh in the balance of justice and equity, and committed them under a show of righteousness; they decreed unrighteous decrees, and framed mischief by a law; and this they did openly, and everywhere, throughout the whole land.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Yea, 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 literal translation of the Hebrew. The Septuagint renders it, “In heart you work iniquity in the land; your hands weave together iniquity.” The Latin Vulgate: “In heart you work iniquity; in the land your hands prepare injustice.” Luther: “Yea, willingly do you work iniquity in the land, and go straight through to work evil with your hands.” Professor Alexander: “In the land, the violence of your hands ye weigh.” Perhaps the true translation of the whole verse would be, “Yea, in heart ye work iniquity in the land; ye weigh (weigh out) the violence of your hands;” that is, the deeds of violence or wickedness which your hands commit. The idea of “weighing” them, or “weighing them out,” is derived from the administration of justice. In all lands people are accustomed to speak of “weighing out” justice; to symbolize its administration by scales and balances; and to express the doing of it as holding an even balance. Compare Job 31:6, note; Daniel 5:27, note; Revelation 6:5, note. Thus interpreted, this verse refers, as Psalms 58:1, to the act of pronouncing judgment; and the idea is that instead of pronouncing a just judgment - of holding an equal balance - they determined in favor of violence - of acts of oppression and wrong to be committed by their own hands. That which they weighed out, or dispensed, was not a just sentence, but violence, wrong, injustice, crime.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 58:2. Yea, 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 the court, yet it did not prevail in the practice of these magistrates and counsellors.
