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God Judges the Earth

Psalms 58:3

In 11 translations

BSB
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
KJV
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.as soon…: Heb. from the belly
WEB
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
ASV
The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
LSV
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, || They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
YLT
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
DBY
The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
DRC57:4
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
GNV
The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
JPS58:4
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.
LXXE57:4
Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.

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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

WLC58:4
זֹ֣רוּ רְשָׁעִ֣ים מֵרָ֑חֶם תָּע֥וּ מִ֝בֶּ֗טֶן דֹּבְרֵ֥י כָזָֽב׃KJV:Ps.58.3
LXX-Br57:4
Ἀπηλλοτριώθησαν οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἀπὸ μήτρας, ἐπλανήθησαν ἀπὸ γαστρὸς, ἐλάλησαν ψευδῆ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
  • Isaiah 48:8You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.
  • Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
  • Ephesians 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
  • Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Psalms 22:10From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.
  • Isaiah 46:3“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 58:4 in some Bibles
  • 58:3 in most Bibles

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