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Psalm 58:3 KJV
Psalms · chapter 58 · verse 3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.Psalm 58:3 · King James Version
Psalm 58:3 in context
1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
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Key words (Strong's)
- estrangedzûwrto turn asideH2114 →
- speakingdâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- wickedrâshâʻmorally wrongH7563 →
- astraytâʻâhto vacillateH8582 →
- wombrechemthe wombH7358 →
- bornbeṭenthe belly, especially the wombH990 →
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We have reason to think that this psalm refers to the malice of Saul and his janizaries against David, because it bears the same inscription (Al-taschith, and Michtam of David) with that which goes before and that which follows, both which appear, by the title, to have been penned with reference to that persecution…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5