Ps 58:1
58:1 <> Do
ye indeed speak righteousness, O {a} congregation? do ye
judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
(a) You counsellors of Saul, who under pretence of
consulting for the common wealth, conspire my death
being an innocent.
Ps 58:2
58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of
{b} your hands in the earth.
(b) You are not ashamed to execute that cruelty publicly,
which you have imagined in your hearts.
Ps 58:3
58:3 The wicked {c} are estranged from the womb: they go astray
as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
(c) That is, enemies to the people of God even from their
birth.
Ps 58:4
58:4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are]
like the deaf {d} adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
(d) They pass in malice and subtilty the crafty serpent who
could preserve himself by stopping his ears from the
enchanter.
Ps 58:6
58:6 Break their {e} teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the
great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
(e) Take away all opportunity and means by which they hurt.
Ps 58:7
58:7 Let them {f} melt away as waters [which] run continually:
[when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them
be as cut in pieces.
(f) Considering God's divine power, he shows that God in a
moment can destroy their force of which they brag.
Ps 58:9
58:9 {g} Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take
them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his]
wrath.
(g) As flesh is taken raw out of the pot before the water
boils: so he desires God to destroy their enterprises
before they bring them to pass.
Ps 58:10
58:10 The righteous shall {h} rejoice when he seeth the
vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the {i} blood of the
wicked.
(h) With a pure affection.
(i) Their punishment and slaughter will be so great.
Ps 58:11
58:11 So that a man shall say, {k} Verily [there is] a reward
for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the
earth.
(k) Seeing God governs all by his providence, he must put
a difference between the godly and the wicked.
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