Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
Quotes around Verses      |
 Psa 58:1 |
For the choir director; set to [fn]Al-tashheth. A [fn]Mikhtam of David. Do you indeed [fn]speak righteousness, O [fn]gods? Do you judge [fn]uprightly, O sons of men? |
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Psa 58:2 |
No, in heart you work unrighteousness; On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands. |
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Psa 58:3 |
The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from [fn]birth. |
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Psa 58:4 |
They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear, |
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Psa 58:5 |
So that it does not hear the voice of [fn]charmers, Or a skillful caster of spells. |
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Psa 58:6 |
O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth; Break out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD. |
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Psa 58:7 |
Let them flow away like water that runs off; When he [fn]aims his arrows, let them be as [fn]headless shafts. |
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Psa 58:8 |
Let them be as a snail which [fn]melts away as it goes along, Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun. |
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Psa 58:9 |
Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the [fn]green and the burning alike. |
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Psa 58:10 |
The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. |
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Psa 58:11 |
And men will say, "Surely there is a [fn]reward for the righteous; Surely there is a God who judges [fn]on earth!" |
NASB Footnotes:
- (58:1) Literally: Do Not Destroy
- (58:1) Possibly Epigrammatic Poem or Atonement Psalm
- (58:1) Another reading is speak righteousness in silence
- (58:1) Or, mighty ones or judges
- (58:1) Or, uprightly the sons of men
- (58:3) Literally: the womb
- (58:5) Or, whisperers
- (58:7) Literally: bends
- (58:7) Literally: though they were cut off
- (58:8) I.e. secretes slime
- (58:9) Literally: living
- (58:11) Literally: fruit
- (58:11) Or, in
