Psalm 58:2 - Revised Standard Version CI

² Nay, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² No, in your heart you devise wickedness; you deal out in the land the violence of your hands.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Common English Bible

² No: in your hearts you plan injustice; your hands do violence on the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² 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

² 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 thee, who frame mischief by statute?

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

Isaiah 10:1

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the righteous is level; thou dost make smooth the path of the righteous.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you men take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and increase and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

Malachi 3:15

Henceforth we deem the arrogant blessed; evildoers not only prosper but when they put God to the test they escape.’ ”