If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
Psalm 58:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition No, in your heart you devise wickedness; you deal out in the land the violence of your hands. American Standard Version (1901) Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. Common English Bible No: in your hearts you plan injustice; your hands do violence on the earth. Catholic Public Domain Version Rescue me from my enemies, my God, and free me from those who rise up against me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that rise up against me. |
If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who contrive mischief by statute?
Moreover, I saw under the sun that, in the place of justice, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well.
The way of the righteous is level; straight is the path of the righteous that you clear.
In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.
Its officials within it are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
Now we count the arrogant happy; evildoers not only prosper, but when they put God to the test they escape.”