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CHAP. LVIII.
1 Dauid reprooueth wicked Iudges, 3 Describeth the nature of the wicked, 6 Deuoteth them to Gods iudgements, 10 whereat the righteous shall reioyce.
2 Yea, in heart you worke wickednesse; you waigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the wombe, they goe astray as soone as they be borne, speaking lies.3
4 Their poison is like the poyson of a serpent; they are like the deafe adder that stoppeth her eare:4
5 Which will not hearken to the voyce of charmers, charming neuer so wisely.5
6 Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouth: breake out the great teeth of the young lyons, O Lord.
9 Before your pots can feele the thornes, he shall take them away as with a whirlewind, both liuing, and in his wrath.9
11 So that a man shall say, Uerily there is a reward for the righteous: verily hee is a God that iudgeth in the earth.11
View Wesley's Notes for Psalms Chapter 58
58:1 O congregation - The word seems to point at Saul's judges and counsellors; who met together to consult what they should do against David. Sons of men - So he calls them; to mind them that they were men, and must give an account to God for all their hard speeches.
58:2 Heart - With free choice and consent. Hands - He intimates that they did great wrong under the pretence of justice, and while they seemed exactly to weigh the true proportion between the actions and the recompenses allotted to them, they turned the scale; and pronounced an unjust sentence. Land - Or, in this land, where God is present, and where you have righteous laws to govern you.
58:3 Estranged - From God, and from all goodness. Their very natures are corrupt, even from their birth: they are the wicked offspring of sinful parents. Astray - By actual sins, from their childhood, as soon as ever they were capable of the exercise of reason.
58:4 Poison - Their malicious disposition.
58:5 Not hearken - As they commonly say of the adders, such really are these men: deaf to all my counsels, to their own consciences, and to God's law. Of the charming or enchanting of serpents, mention is made both in other places of scripture, and in all sorts of authors, ancient and modern, Hebrew and Arabick, and Greek and Latin. And particularly the Arabick writers (to whom these creatures were best known) name some sorts of serpents, among which the adder is one, which they call deaf, not because they are dull of hearing, but, as one of them expressly faith, because they will not be charmed.
58:6 Their teeth - Their powerful instruments of doing mischief.
58:7 Melt away - As waters arising from melted snow, which at first run with great force, but are suddenly gone.
58:8 Melteth - Which is quickly dissolved.
58:9 Before - Before your pots can be heated. Take them - Violently and irresistibly. Living - Alive, as he did Korah.
58:10 Rejoice - For the blessed effects of it; the vindication of God's honour, and the deliverance of himself and of all good men. Wash - There shall be so great a slaughter of his enemies that he might, if he pleased, wash his feet in their blood.
Psalms Chapter 58 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):
3 Heb. from the belly.
4 Heb. according to the likenesse. , Or, aspe.
5 Or, be the charmest neuer so cunning.
9 Heb. as liuing, as wrath.
11 Heb. fruite of the &c.
* Courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania
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