Psalms 58:2

In 11 translations

BSB

No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.

KJV

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

WEB

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands on the earth.

ASV

Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

LSV

Even in heart you work iniquities, || In the land you ponder the violence of your hands.

YLT

Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

DBY

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

DRC57:3

For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

GNV

Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.

JPS58:3

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

LXXE57:3

For ye work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC58:3

אַף־בְּלֵב֮ עוֹלֹ֪ת תִּפְעָ֫ל֥וּן בָּאָ֡רֶץ חֲמַ֥ס יְ֝דֵיכֶ֗ם תְּפַלֵּֽסֽוּן׃KJV:Ps.58.2

LXX-Br57:3

Καὶ γὰρ ἐν καρδίᾳ ἀνομίας ἐργάζεσθε ἐν τῇ γῇ, ἀδικίαν αἱ χεῖρες ὑμῶν συμπλέκουσιν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 94:20Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree?
• Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
• Ezekiel 22:27Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
• Micah 3:1–3Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice? You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones. You eat…
• 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.
• Micah 3:9–12Now 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, who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity. Her leaders judge for a…
• 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.
• John 11:47–53Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs. If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come…
• Jeremiah 22:16–17He 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. “But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on…
• Psalms 21:11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
• Malachi 3:15So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
• Isaiah 59:4–6No 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. They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever…
• Isaiah 26:7The path of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the upright.

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