Salmi 58:2

2 Anzi voi fabbricate perversità nel cuor vostro; Voi bilanciate la violenza delle vostre mani in terra.

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 Mictam di Davide, dato al capo de’ Musici, sopra Al-tashet. DI vero, parlate voi giustamente? Giudicate voi dirittamente, o figliuoli di uomini?

2 Anzi voi fabbricate perversità nel cuor vostro; Voi bilanciate la violenza delle vostre mani in terra.

3 Questi empi sono stati alienati fin dalla matrice; Questi parlatori di menzogna sono stati sviati fin dal seno della madre.

4 Hanno del veleno simile al veleno del serpente; Sono come l’aspido sordo, che si tura le orecchie;

5 Il qual non ascolta la voce degl’incantatori, Nè di chi è saputo in fare incantagioni.