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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 stretched out evil over thee,{HR}They have devised a wicked device; they are not able. (Psa. 21:11)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 21:11• 11For they stretched out evil over thee,{HR}They have devised a wicked device; they are not able. (Psa. 21:11)
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Eccl. 3:16• 16And moreover I saw under the sun,{HR}That in the place of judgment wickedness was there;{HR}And in the place of righteousness wickedness was there. (Eccl. 3:16)
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Isa. 59:4‑6• 4None sueth in righteousness, 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 with him: was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
 17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:16‑17)
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Ezek. 22:12,27• 12{i}In 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.{/i}
 27Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. (Ezek. 22:12,27)
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Mic. 3:1‑3,9‑12• 1{i}And I said{/i}, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
 2{i}Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;{/i}
 3{i}and 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.{/i}
 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.
 10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
 11{i}The 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.{/i}
 12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. (Mic. 3:1‑3,9‑12)
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John 11:47‑53• 47The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered together a council, and said, What do we, for this man doeth many signs?
 48[and] if we leave him thus, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.
 49But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest of that year, said to them, Ye know nothing,
 50nor reckon that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.
 51Now this he said not from himself, but, being high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,
 52and not for the nation only, but that also he should gather together into one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
 53From that day therefore they consulted that they might kill him. (John 11:47‑53)
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Psa. 94:20• 20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee,{HR}Which frameth mischief by statute? (Psa. 94:20)
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Isa. 10:1• 1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and unto 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. (“Psalm 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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Yea, in heart ye work iniquities;{HR}In the earth ye weigh the violence of your hands.