Psalms 58:2 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 58:2

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

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ASV

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

WEB

No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.

YLT

Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

DBT

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

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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19 verses on the floor

Psalms 94:20
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
Isaiah 10:1
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Micah 3:1–3
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

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He imprecates and foretels their ruin, and the judgments which the righteous God would bring upon them for their injustice (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And what was their wickedness? It follows, " You weigh the violence of your hands in the earth " (or in the land ), "the peace of which you are appointed to be the conservators of." They did all the violence and injury they could, either to enrich or avenge themselves, and they weighed it; that is, 1.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This they did not design; but weigh . . . violence--or give decisions of violence. Weigh is a figure to express the acts of judges. in the earth--publicly.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Hands - He intimates that they did great wrong under the pretense of justice, and while they seemed exactly to weigh the true proportion between the actions and the recompenses allotted to them, they turned the scale; and pronounced an unjust sentence. Land - Or, in this land, where God is present, and where you have righteous laws to govern you.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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