Parallel Verses
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.
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
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of Adam?
2
On earth you
Names
Cross References
Psalm 94:20
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, who creates toil under the guise of law?
Isaiah 10:1
Woe unto those that establish unrighteous laws and that wilfully prescribe tyranny
Psalm 21:11
For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a wicked device, but they did not prevail.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun that instead of judgment, there was wickedness; and instead of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Isaiah 26:7
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
Isaiah 59:4-6
No one calls for righteousness, nor do any judge by the truth; they trust in vanity, and speak vanities; they conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity.
Jeremiah 22:16-17
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him. Is this not to know me? said the LORD.
Ezekiel 22:12
In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to follow their own greed.
Micah 3:1-3
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O princes of Jacob, and ye heads of the house of Israel. Did it not pertain to you to know that which is right?
Micah 3:9-12
Now hear this, ye heads of the house of Jacob and captains of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment and pervert all equity;
Malachi 3:15
We say, therefore, now, that blessed are the proud and even that those that work wickedness are prospered; those that tempted God have escaped.
John 11:47-53
Then the high priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What shall we do? for this man does many signs.