Psalms 58:5
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| Overview - Psalms 58 | |
| 1 | David reproves wicked judges; |
| 3 | describes the nature of the wicked; |
| 6 | devotes them to God's judgments; |
| 10 | whereat the righteous shall rejoice. |
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Psalms 58:5 (King James Version)
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 ; Isaiah 19:3