Salmi 58:2

2 Anzi, nel cuore voi commettete delle iniquità; nel paese, voi gettate nella bilancia la violenza delle vostre mani.

Salmi 58:2 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 58:2

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 wickedness is wrought; for sinful acts are committed there as well as by the tongue and hand, as follows. This phrase also denotes their sinning; not with precipitancy, and through surprise; but with premeditation and deliberation; and their doing it heartily, with good will, and with allowance, and their continuance and constant persisting in it;

ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth;
they were guilty of acts of violence and oppression, which, of all men, judges should not be guilty of; whose business it is to plead the cause of the injured and oppressed, to right their wrongs, and to protect and defend them: these they pretended to weigh in the balance of justice and equity, and committed them under a show of righteousness; they decreed unrighteous decrees, and framed mischief by a law; and this they did openly, and everywhere, throughout the whole land.

Salmi 58:2 In-Context

1 Per il Capo de’ musici. "Non distruggere". Inno di Davide. E’ egli proprio secondo giustizia che voi parlate, o potenti? Giudicate voi rettamente i figliuoli degli uomini?

2 Anzi, nel cuore voi commettete delle iniquità; nel paese, voi gettate nella bilancia la violenza delle vostre mani.

3 Gli empi sono sviati fin dalla matrice, i mentitori son traviati fino dal seno materno.

4 Han del veleno simile al veleno del serpente, son come l’aspide sordo che si tura le orecchie,

5 che non ascolta la voce degl’incantatori, del mago esperto nell’affascinare.