Psalms 58 (NET)

Psalms 58:1¹Do you rulers really pronounce just decisions? Do you judge people fairly?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 11:3-5Ps 57:1Deut 16:18-19Ps 72:1-42 Chr 19:6-72 Sam 23:3Deut 1:15-16Jer 23:5-6Ps 82:1-22 Sam 5:3

Psalms 58:2²No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:1Ps 94:20Eccl 3:16Ezek 22:27Mic 3:1-3Ezek 22:12Isa 26:7Isa 59:4-6Jer 22:16-17John 11:47-53

Psalms 58:3³The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 51:5Isa 48:8Prov 22:15Eph 2:3Job 15:14Ps 22:10Isa 46:3

Psalms 58:4⁴Their venom is like that of a snake, like a deaf serpent that does not hear,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 3:8Ps 140:3Eccl 10:11Jer 8:17Rom 3:13Deut 32:33Isa 11:8Job 20:14Job 20:16Matt 23:33

Psalms 58:5⁵that does not respond to the magicians, or to a skilled snake charmer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 8:17Deut 18:11Isa 19:3

Psalms 58:6⁶O God, break the teeth in their mouths! Smash the jawbones of the lions, O Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 3:7Hos 5:14Job 29:17Job 4:10-11Mic 5:8Ps 10:15Ps 17:12Ezek 30:21-26Isa 31:4Num 23:24

Psalms 58:7⁷Let them disappear like water that flows away. Let them wither like grass.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 7:5Ps 112:10Exod 15:15Isa 13:7Josh 2:9-11Ps 64:32 Sam 17:10Ps 22:14Ps 64:7-8

Psalms 58:8⁸Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along. Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 3:16Eccl 6:3Jas 1:10Ps 37:35-36Matt 24:35

Psalms 58:9⁹Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 10:25Eccl 7:6Ps 118:12Isa 17:13Jer 23:19Isa 40:24Job 18:18Job 20:5-29Job 27:21Num 16:30

Psalms 58:10¹⁰The godly will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 68:23Ps 91:8Prov 11:10Rev 11:17-18Deut 32:43Ps 64:10Ps 107:42Job 22:19Job 29:6Judg 5:31

Psalms 58:11¹¹Then observers will say, “Yes indeed, the godly are rewarded. Yes indeed, there is a God who judges in the earth.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 3:10Ps 67:4Ps 64:9Ps 33:18Mal 2:17Mal 3:14Rom 2:5Ps 98:9Rom 6:21-222 Pet 3:4-10