Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Psalms 58:2
Ye work wickedness, &c.— You work wickedness on the earth; your hands frame violence.
Ye work wickedness, &c.— You work wickedness on the earth; your hands frame violence.
Verse Psalms 58:2. _YEA, IN HEART YE WORK WICKEDNESS_] With their _tongues_ they had spoken maliciously, and given evil counsel. In their _hearts_ they meditated nothing but wickedness. And though in...
YEA, IN HEART YE WORK WICKEDNESS - Whatever might be the outward appearances, whatever pretences they might make to just judgment, yet in fact their hearts were set on wickedness, and they were consci...
Psalms 58 A Judgment Psalm __ 1. Why God must judge (Psalms 58:1) 2. The judgment executed (Psalms 58:6) “Do ye of a truth in silence speak righteousness?” (literal rendering of the first verse)....
LVIII. A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE ON UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGES. This Ps. is closely allied to Psalms 82. The reproaches in Psalms 58:3, where the enemies of the Psalmist are said to have gone astray from the wom...
WICKEDNESS. Hebrew. _'avval._ Compare App-44. YE WEIGH. Ye weigh out, or, dispense....
An indignant remonstrance with those in authority, who, instead of condemning crime, are themselves the most guilty criminals....
_Yea_ Or, Nay, for the particle implies a negative answer, and an additional accusation. Far from judging equitably, you are yourselves the greatest offenders. _in heart_ Inwardly they are ever contr...
PSALMS 58 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Significant Warning to Corrupt Judges. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 58:1-5, Corrupt Judges Apostrophised, Described in their Evil Doings and Training, in the Harm they D...
_YEA, IN HEART YE WORK WICKEDNESS; YE WEIGH THE VIOLENCE OF YOUR HANDS IN THE EARTH._ Yea, in heart ye work wickedness - Hebrew 'wickednesses.' "Yea," or also. In Psalms 58:1 he implied that they had...
58:2 earth. (i-17) Or 'land,' _ erets_ , as also ver. 11, Psalms 58:2 ; 1 Samuel 2:8 ; &c. out (q-9) Or 'ponder.'...
This Ps. denounces the wickedness of unjust and oppressive judges, and prays, in a series of powerful metaphors, for their destruction, in order that righteousness may be vindicated, and God exalted a...
WEIGH] RV 'weigh out.' The 'scales of justice' are abused....
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
IN HEART... IN THE EARTH (or, better, _in the land_). — These in the text are in antithesis. The mischief conceived in the heart is weighed out, instead of justice, by these unjust magistrates. The ba...
_[Psalms 58:3]_ אַף ־בְּ לֵב֮ עֹולֹ֪ת תִּפְעָ֫ל֥וּן...
Psalms 58:1 THIS psalmist's fiery indignation against unjust judges and evil-doers generally is not kindled by personal wrongs. The psalm comes hot from a heart lacerated by the sight of widespread co...
“THERE IS A GOD THAT JUDGETH” Psalms 58:1 This psalm is launched against wicked rulers. It may have been occasioned by the attitude of Abner and others of Saul's party, who accounted David as a rebe...
This is a fine setting forth of the certainty of the judgment of God against wickedness. The psalmist declares its reason (verses Psa 58:1-5), its process (verses Psa 58:6-9), and its effect (verses t...
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....
Observe the iniquity is here said to be of the heart....
_FAITH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS_ I. THE THRONE OF INIQUITY (Psalms 58:1). II. THE THRONE OF GOD (Psalms 58:6). III. THE SPECTACLE OF JUSTICE (Psalms 58:10). ILLUSTRATIONS (1) ‘Not
2._Yea, rather, in heart ye plot wickedness. _In the former verse he complained of the gross shamelessness manifested in their conduct. Now he charges them both with entertaining wickedness in their t...
Psalms 58. All righteousness was silent in Israel. The wicked were such and nought else. The godly man looks for judgment on them, for, let favor be shown to them, they will not learn uprightness. In...
YEA, IN HEART YE WORK WICKEDNESS,.... So far were they from speaking righteousness, and judging uprightly. The heart of man is wickedness itself; it is desperately wicked, and is the shop in which all...
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. Ver. 2. _Yea, in heart ye work wickedness_] These the devil worketh it as in a forge; ye are always plotting and pl...
_Yea, in heart ye work wickedness_ Or, _with your heart_, that is, with free choice and consent; with premeditation and design, and with a strong inclination to it, and resolution in it, and not merel...
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth, giving decisions which are, in effect. measures of violence, without a show of right. The passage is highly sarcasti...
A CRY FOR VENGEANCE UPON THE SUBVERTERS OF RIGHT. To the chief musician, Al-taschith, to be sung to the same melody as the preceding psalm, Michtam, a poem in epigrammatic form, of David....
1-5 When wrong is done under the form of law, it is worse than any other; especially it is grievous to behold those who profess to be children of God, joining together against any of his people. We s...
IN HEART; or, _with your heart_; with free choice and consent, and not only by constraint, and out of compliance with Saul. YE WEIGH THE VIOLENCE OF YOUR HANDS; or, you weigh violence or injustice wit...
Psalms 58:2 heart H3820 work H6466 (H8799) wickedness H5766 weigh H6424 (H8762) violence H2555 hands H3027 earth...
HEADING (PSALMS 58:1 A). ‘For the Chief Musician, set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. Michtam. The heading is a reproduction of the heading to Psalms 57 without the final clause. Psalms 58 is anoth...
CONTENTS: Prayer for the defeat of ungodly men. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: However wicked people may prosper and bid defiance to divine justice, they will eventually learn that there is a G...
Psalms 58:4. _The deaf adder,_ which stops her ears by putting one ear to the ground, and forcing her tail into the other. Very many of the ancient Greek and Latin writers mention the practice of cert...
_Yea, in heart ye work wickedness._ SIN IN THE HEART There once sailed from the city of Orleans a large and noble steamer, laden with cotton, and having a great number of passengers on board. While t...
_Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?_ MAN IN MANY ASPECTS I. The character of depraved men portrayed. 1. Unrighteous in judgment. 2. Wrong in heart. 3. Violent in the treatment of m...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 58:1. This is a community lament that God’s people sing when they are confronted with injustice among their own rulers. Singing this in worship (1) helps the faithful to pra...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—“To the Chief Musician, Al-taschith_.” see introduction to Psalms 57. “_Michtam of David_.” See Introduction to Psalms 56. Moll: “This complaint respecting domestic admin...
EXPOSITION A PSALM of condemnation on unrighteous judges. Some suppose the judges to be superhuman beings, entrusted with the government of the earth (Cheyne). Others suggest heathen rulers of Israel,...
Psa 58:1-11 is a prayer of David. I would not want to be one of David's enemies because of his prayers. Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men? Y...
Ecclesiastes 3:16; Ezekiel 22:12; Ezekiel 22:27; Isaiah 10:1; Is
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 t...