Self-interpreting Bible
Psalms 58
1David reproving wicked judges, 3describeth the nature of the wicked, 6and devoteth them to God's judgments, 10whereat the righteous shall rejoice.
0 To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, 1Michtam of David.
1 DO aye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye bsons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye cwork wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The dwicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray 2as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
- d: Ge. 6:5 , Ep. 4:18 , Ep. 2:1 - 3 , Ep. 2:12 , Is. 48:8 , Ps. 51:5 , Mat. 15:19
- 2: Heb. from the belly.
4 Their epoison is 3like the poison of a serpent: they are like the 4deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5 Which fwill not hearken to the voice of charmers, 5charming never so wisely.
6 Break gtheir teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
- g: Job 4:10 , Job 29:17 , Ps. 3:7 , Ps. 10:15 , Eze. 30:21 - 25
7 Let them hmelt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As ia snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like jthe untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Before kyour pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, 6both living, and in his wrath.
- k: Ps. 73:18 - 20 , Ps. 55:15 , Ps. 55:23 , Ps. 11:6 , Job 20:5 - 29 , Job 18:5 - 14 , Job 27:20 , Job 27:21 , Pr. 10:25 , Pr. 14:32 , Ec. 7:6
- 6: Heb. as living as wrath.
10 The lrighteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall mwash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, n*Verily there is 7a reward for the righteous: overily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
- n: Ps. 92:15 , Is. 3:10 , Ro. 2:6 , Ro. 2:7 , Ro. 2:10 , 2Th. 1:6 - 9
- *: verily-indeed, truly.
- 7: Heb. fruit of.
- o: De. 29:24 - 28 , Ps. 9:8 , Ps. 9:16 - 20 , Ps. 64:9 , Ps. 83:18 , Ps. 59:13