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Book of Psalms


Psalm 58

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.

King James Version

1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.1

References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2. Matthew Henry Bible Commentary - http:// www.eword today.com/ comments/ psalm/mh/ psalm58.htm
3. Seventh-day Bible Commentary - Vol. 3 pg. 770

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To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. 2

 

DIVISION OF PSALM 58

It is the probable conjecture of some (Amyraldus particularly) that before Saul began to persecute David by force of arms, and raised the militia to seize him, he formed a process against him by course of law, upon which he was condemned unheard, and attainted as a traitor, by the great council, or supreme court of judicature, and then proclaimed "qui caput gerit lupinum - an outlawed wolf," whom any man might kill and no man might protect. The elders, in order to curry favour with Saul, having passed this bill of attainder, it is supposed that David penned this psalm on the occasion.
I. He describes their sin, and aggravates that (v. 1-5).
II. He imprecates and foretells their ruin, and the judgments which the righteous God would bring upon them for their injustice (v. 6-9) which would redound,
1. To the comfort of the saints (v. 10).
2. To the glory of God (v. 11).2



CONDEMNATION OF UNJUST JUDGES

Psalm 58 is a condemnation of unjust judges, and hence a vehement reproof and warning for all who share in injustice and oppression. Forceful in imagery and general style, the psalm makes the charge of injustice, passes sentence of punishment, and rejoices in the justice of God, the great Judge. In this psalm the contrast between the unjust judges of earth, and God, the righteous Judge, is most striking.3

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