Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in 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.
Bible in Basic English
The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on 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 {To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam.} Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men? 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 94:20
Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?
Isaiah 10:1
Woe unto them that decree iniquitous decrees, and to the writers that prescribe oppression,
Psalm 21:11
For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun, that in the place of judgment, wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there.
Isaiah 26:7
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, the Upright, dost make the path of the just even.
Isaiah 59:4-6
none calleth for justice, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Jeremiah 22:16-17
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
Ezekiel 22:12
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Micah 3:1-3
And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?
Micah 3:9-12
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity,
Malachi 3:15
And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape.
John 11:47-53
The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.