Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
New American Standard Bible
On earth you
King James Version
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Holman Bible
with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.
International Standard Version
As a matter of fact, in your heart you plan iniquities! In the land your hands are violent!
A Conservative Version
No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
American Standard Version
Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Amplified
No, in your heart you devise wrongdoing;
On earth you deal out the violence of your hands.
Darby Translation
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Julia Smith Translation
Also in heart ye will work evil; in the earth ye will roll the violence of your hands.
King James 2000
Yea, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
No, in [your] heart you plan injustices; in the land you weigh out the violence of your hands.
Modern King James verseion
Yes, in heart you work the evil, you weigh the violence of your hands in the land.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But ye imagine mischief in your hearts, and your hands deal with wickedness.
NET Bible
No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.
New Heart English Bible
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
The Emphasized Bible
Aye! ye all do work, perversity, - Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence!
Webster
Yes, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
World English Bible
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Youngs Literal Translation
Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 58:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry Against Injustice
1 Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men? 2 The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth. 3 The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 94:20
What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
Isaiah 10:1
Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
Psalm 21:11
For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.
Isaiah 26:7
The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.
Isaiah 59:4-6
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Jeremiah 22:16-17
He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.
Ezekiel 22:12
In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
Micah 3:1-3
And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?
Micah 3:9-12
Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.
Malachi 3:15
And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.
John 11:47-53
Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.