Psalms 58:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.”
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“No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 58:2 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 21:11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
- Psalms 82:1God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods:
- Psalms 94:20Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree?
- Ecclesiastes 3:16Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.
- Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
- Isaiah 26:7The path of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the upright.
- Isaiah 59:4No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
- Jeremiah 22:16He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
- Ezekiel 22:12In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 22:27Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
- Micah 3:1Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
- Micah 3:9Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
- Malachi 3:15So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
- John 11:47Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
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