Psalms 58:2New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— No, in heart you work unrighteousness; On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Yes, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Aye! ye all do work, perversity,—Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Yea, in heart you worke wickednesse; you waigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Behold you all speak evil on earth, and your hands are soiled with injustice.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— For ye work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. |
Yea,
x637 (0637) Complementאַף'aph{af}
A primitive particle; meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjugation); also or yea; adversatively though.
in heart
3820 {3820} Primeלֵבleb{labe}
A form of H3824; the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything.
ye work
6466 {6466} Primeפָּעַלpa`al{paw-al'}
A primitive root; to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
wickedness;
5766 {5766} Primeעֶוֶל`evel{eh'-vel}
From H5765; (moral) evil.
ye weigh
6424 {6424} Primeפָּלַסpalac{paw-las'}
A primitive root; properly to roll flat, that is, prepare (a road); also to revolve, that is, weigh (mentally).
z8762 <8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 2447
the violence
2555 {2555} Primeחָמָסchamac{khaw-mawce'}
From H2554; violence; by implication wrong; by metonymy unjust gain.
of your hands
3027 {3027} Primeיָדyad{yawd}
A primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote.
in the earth.
776 {0776} Primeאֶרֶץ'erets{eh'-rets}
From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land). |
Psalms 58:2
_ _ This they did not design; but
_ _ weigh ... violence — or give decisions of violence. Weigh is a figure to express the acts of judges.
_ _ in the earth — publicly. |
Psalms 58:2
Heart — With free choice and consent. Hands — He intimates that they did great wrong under the pretence of justice, and while they seemed exactly to weigh the true proportion between the actions and the recompenses allotted to them, they turned the scale; and pronounced an unjust sentence. Land — Or, in this land, where God is present, and where you have righteous laws to govern you. |
Psalms 58:2
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of (b) your hands in the earth.
(b) You are not ashamed to execute that cruelty publicly, which you have imagined in your hearts. |
- in heart:
Psalms 21:11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].
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.
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. ... 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.
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].
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.
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.
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 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.
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. ... 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.
John 11:47-53 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. ... Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
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- weigh:
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;
Isaiah 26:7 The way of the just [is] uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
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