Psalms 58
God Who Judges the Earth
1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? Righteousness: 2 Samuel 23:3, Isaiah 32:1. Parallel theme: Psalms 57:1, 59:1, Numbers 11:16, 2 Samuel 5:3, Matthew 26:3, 27:1, Acts 5:21 +4
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. Evil: Psalms 21:11, Ecclesiastes 3:16, Malachi 3:15. Parallel theme: Psalms 94:20, Isaiah 10:1, 26:7, Ezekiel 22:12, 22:27 +3
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Parallel theme: Psalms 51:5, Proverbs 22:15, Isaiah 48:8, Ephesians 2:3
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Parallel theme: Psalms 140:3, Ecclesiastes 10:11, James 3:8
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. Parallel theme: Jeremiah 8:17
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. Parallel theme: Job 3:16, Ecclesiastes 6:3
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. Parallel theme: Psalms 118:12, Proverbs 10:25, Ecclesiastes 7:6
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. Blood: Psalms 68:23, Deuteronomy 32:43. Evil: Psalms 91:8. Righteousness: Psalms 64:10, 107:42, Proverbs 11:10
11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. References God: Psalms 64:9, Malachi 3:14. Judgment: Malachi 2:17. Righteousness: Psalms 9:8, 18:20, 67:4, 98:9, Isaiah 3:10, Romans 2:5. Parallel theme: Psalms 33:18 +5