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Psalm 58

Psa. 58:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Yea, in heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
s ye work
pa`al (Hebrew #6466)
to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
KJV usage: commit, (evil-) do(-er), make(-r), ordain, work(-er).
Pronounce: paw-al'
Origin: a primitive root
wickedness
`evel (Hebrew #5766)
and (feminine) lavlah {av-law'}; or owlah {o-law'}; or .olah {o-law'}; from 5765; (moral) evil
KJV usage: iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).
Pronounce: eh'-vel
Origin: or lavel {aw'-vel}
; ye weigh
palac (Hebrew #6424)
properly, to roll flat, i.e. prepare (a road); also to revolve, i.e. weigh (mentally)
KJV usage: make, ponder, weigh.
Pronounce: paw-las'
Origin: a primitive root
the violence
chamac (Hebrew #2555)
violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain
KJV usage: cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, X oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.
Pronounce: khaw-mawce'
Origin: from 2554
of your hands
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
in the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Psa. 21:11• 11For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute. (Psa. 21:11)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 21:11• 11For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute. (Psa. 21:11)
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Eccl. 3:16• 16And moreover I saw under the sun, that in the place of judgment, wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there. (Eccl. 3:16)
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Isa. 59:4‑6• 4none calleth for justice, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
 5They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
 6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. (Isa. 59:4‑6)
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Jer. 22:16‑17• 16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
 17But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:16‑17)
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Ezek. 22:12,27• 12In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
 27Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. (Ezek. 22:12,27)
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Mic. 3:1‑3,9‑12• 1And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?
 2Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
 3and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.
 9Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity,
 10that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.
 11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.
 12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. (Mic. 3:1‑3,9‑12)
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John 11:47‑53• 47The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.
 48If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
 49But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing
 50nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.
 51But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;
 52and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
 53From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him. (John 11:47‑53)
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Psa. 94:20• 20Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law? (Psa. 94:20)
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Isa. 10:1• 1Woe unto them that decree iniquitous decrees, and to the writers that prescribe oppression, (Isa. 10:1)
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Isa. 26:7• 7The way of the just is uprightness: thou, the Upright, dost make the path of the just even. (Isa. 26:7)
• As in the days that preceded the judgment of the flood, men were corrupt, and filled with violence in their ways (Gen. 6:11); so, before the judgment falls upon the present world it will again be manifest that their hearts are utterly corrupt, and their hands filled with violence. (“Psalms 58” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh outq the violence of your hands in the earthi.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "ponder."
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Or "land," erets, as also ver. 11, Ps. 58.2; 1 Sam. 2.8; etc.