Psaume 58:2

2 Loin de là! Dans le coeur, vous consommez des iniquités; Dans le pays, c'est la violence de vos mains que vous placez sur la balance.

Psaume 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.

Psaume 58:2 In-Context

1 Au chef des chantres. Ne détruis pas. Hymne de David. Est-ce donc en vous taisant que vous rendez la justice? Est-ce ainsi que vous jugez avec droiture, fils de l'homme?

2 Loin de là! Dans le coeur, vous consommez des iniquités; Dans le pays, c'est la violence de vos mains que vous placez sur la balance.

3 Les méchants sont pervertis dès le sein maternel, Les menteurs s'égarent au sortir du ventre de leur mère.

4 Ils ont un venin pareil au venin d'un serpent, D'un aspic sourd qui ferme son oreille,

5 Qui n'entend pas la voix des enchanteurs, Du magicien le plus habile.