Psalm 58
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<> Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

(Title.) Al-taschith. or, Destroy not, A golden Psalm

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Psalm 59:1 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise …

Do

Psalm 72:1-4 Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son…

Deuteronomy 16:18,19 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the …

2 Samuel 23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules …

2 Chronicles 19:6,7 And said to the judges, Take heed what you do: for you judge not …

Isaiah 11:3-5 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: …

Isaiah 32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

Jeremiah 23:5,6 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will raise to David …

O congregation

Psalm 82:1,2 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods…

Numbers 11:16 And the LORD said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders …

Deuteronomy 1:15,16 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made …

2 Samuel 5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king …

Matthew 26:3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the …

Matthew 27:1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the …

Luke 23:50,51 And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counselor; and he was …

Acts 5:21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the …

O ye

Psalm 82:6,7 I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the most High…

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

Which. That serpents might be charmed or rendered harmless was well known to the ancients. Virgil, and many others state the fact:--Frigidus in pratis cantando, rumpitur anguis `In the meadows the cold snake is burst by incantation.'

charming never so wisely. or, be the charmer never so cunning

Deuteronomy 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, …

Isaiah 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the middle thereof; and I will …

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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.
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.

a snail. --Shabbelool, in Chaldee tivlala, the snail, is probably so called from the Arabic balla, to wet, moisten, because of the glutinous slime emitted from its body, by which it appears to waste itself away in its own motion: and in the same manner the wicked prove their own destruction

pass

Psalm 37:35,36 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like …

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

James 1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the …

untimely

Job 3:16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that …

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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