Psalms Chapter 58 verse 2 Holy Bible
Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
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The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
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Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
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Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
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To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
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No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
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Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; literally, wickednesses, or iniquities. These ye first devise in your heart, and then (see the next clause) carry out with your hands. Ye weigh (or, weigh out) the violence of your hands in the earth. Instead of carefully meting out justice to men, after accurately weighing it in the balance of right and equity, you weigh out to them mere wrong and "violence."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) In heart . . . in the earth (or, better, in the land).--These in the text are in antithesis. The mischief conceived in the heart is weighed out, instead of justice, by these unjust magistrates. The balance of justice is thus turned into a means of wrong-doing. But, perhaps, we should rather arrange as follows:Nay! with your heart ye work wickedness in the land,With your hands you weigh out violence.
