Psalm 58:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.

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King 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.

Psalm 58:2 Cross References

Psalm 21:11

If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

Psalm 82:1

God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

Psalm 94:20

Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who contrive mischief by statute?

Ecclesiastes 3:16

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.

Isaiah 10:1

Woe to those who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes,

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the righteous is level; straight is the path of the righteous that you clear.

Ezekiel 22:12

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.

Ezekiel 22:27

Its officials within it are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

Malachi 3:15

Now we count the arrogant happy; evildoers not only prosper, but when they put God to the test they escape.”