Psalms 58:2
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Psalms 58:2 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Psalms 58:2 is a verse from the book of Psalms in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Psalms 58:2 — KJV
“Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.”
— Psalms 58:2 (KJV)
Psalms 58:2 in Context — About the Book of Psalms
Psalms is the Bible's prayer book — 150 songs covering every emotion a praying person will ever feel: praise, panic, gratitude, grief, fury, and quiet trust. For three thousand years believers have borrowed these words when their own run out. If you can feel it, there is a psalm for it.
Cross-References for Psalms 58:2
“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. every...: or, the whole imagination: the Hebrew word signifieth not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires continually: Heb. every day”
Shares key themes with Psalms 58:2: heart, wickedness, earth
“And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it. to meet...: Heb. before them be knit: Heb. be one wrong: or, violence”
Shares key themes with Psalms 58:2: heart, violence, hands
“And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.”
Shares key themes with Psalms 58:2: work, hands, earth
“And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.”
Shares key themes with Psalms 58:2: heart, work, hands
“Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?”
Shares key themes with Psalms 58:2: work, hands, earth
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