Psalms 58:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness - Hebrew 'wickednesses.' "Yea," or also. In Psalms 58:1 he implied that they had not done what they ought to have done: he here says, they have also done what they ought not to have done.

Ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. Scales and weights symbolize the administration of justice (Job 31:6). 'What ye weigh out is violence, not justice.' The wickedness of the hands stands in contrast to working wickedness in heart (cf. Micah 2:1) in the previous clause.

Psalms 58:2

2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.