Apologetics Bible

Psalms 58:1

Hebrew

לַמְנַצֵּחַ אַל־תַּשְׁחֵת לְדָוִד מִכְתָּֽם׃

lamenatzecha-'al-tashechet-ledavid-mikhetam

KJV: Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

AKJV: Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?

ASV: Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness?

YLT: To the Overseer. --`Destroy not.' --A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?

Exposition: Psalms 58:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Psalms 58:2

Hebrew

הַֽאֻמְנָם אֵלֶם צֶדֶק תְּדַבֵּרוּן מֵישָׁרִים תִּשְׁפְּטוּ בְּנֵי אָדָֽם׃

ha'umenam-'elem-tzedeq-tedavervn-meyshariym-tishefetv-veney-'adam

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

AKJV: Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

ASV: Nay, in heart ye work wickedness;

YLT: Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

Exposition: Psalms 58:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Psalms 58:3

Hebrew

אַף־בְּלֵב עוֹלֹת תִּפְעָלוּן בָּאָרֶץ חֲמַס יְדֵיכֶם תְּפַלֵּֽסֽוּן׃

'af-velev-'volot-tife'alvn-va'aretz-chamas-yedeykhem-tefalesvn

KJV: The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

AKJV: The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

ASV: The wicked are estranged from the womb:

YLT: The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

Exposition: Psalms 58:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Psalms 58:4

Hebrew

זֹרוּ רְשָׁעִים מֵרָחֶם תָּעוּ מִבֶּטֶן דֹּבְרֵי כָזָֽב׃

zorv-resha'iym-merachem-ta'v-miveten-doverey-khazav

KJV: Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

AKJV: Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear;

ASV: Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:

YLT: Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

Exposition: Psalms 58:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Psalms 58:5

Hebrew

חֲמַת־לָמוֹ כִּדְמוּת חֲמַת־נָחָשׁ כְּמוֹ־פֶתֶן חֵרֵשׁ יַאְטֵם אָזְנֽוֹ׃

chamat-lamvo-khidemvt-chamat-nachash-khemvo-feten-cheresh-ya'etem-'azenvo

KJV: Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

AKJV: Which will not listen to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

ASV: Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers,

YLT: Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.

Exposition: Psalms 58:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Psalms 58:6

Hebrew

אֲשֶׁר לֹא־יִשְׁמַע לְקוֹל מְלַחֲשִׁים חוֹבֵר חֲבָרִים מְחֻכָּֽם׃

'asher-lo'-yishema'-leqvol-melachashiym-chvover-chavariym-mechukham

KJV: Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

AKJV: Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

ASV: Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:

YLT: O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

Exposition: Psalms 58:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Psalms 58:7

Hebrew

אֱ‍ֽלֹהִים הֲרָס־שִׁנֵּימוֹ בְּפִימוֹ מַלְתְּעוֹת כְּפִירִים נְתֹץ ׀ יְהוָֽה׃

'elohiym-haras-shineymvo-vefiymvo-malete'vot-khefiyriym-netotz- -yehvah

KJV: Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

AKJV: Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

ASV: Let them melt away as water that runneth apace:

YLT: They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

Exposition: Psalms 58:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Psalms 58:8

Hebrew

יִמָּאֲסוּ כְמוֹ־מַיִם יִתְהַלְּכוּ־לָמוֹ יִדְרֹךְ חצו חִצָּיו כְּמוֹ יִתְמֹלָֽלוּ׃

yima'asv-khemvo-mayim-yitehalekhv-lamvo-yiderokhe-chtzv-chitzayv-khemvo-yitemolalv

KJV: As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

AKJV: As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

ASV: Let them beas a snail which melteth and passeth away,

YLT: As a snail that melteth he goeth on, As an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

Exposition: Psalms 58:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Psalms 58:9

Hebrew

כְּמוֹ שַׁבְּלוּל תֶּמֶס יַהֲלֹךְ נֵפֶל אֵשֶׁת בַּל־חָזוּ שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

khemvo-shavelvl-temes-yahalokhe-nefel-'eshet-val-chazv-shamesh

KJV: Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

AKJV: Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

ASV: Before your pots can feel the thorns,

YLT: Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

Exposition: Psalms 58:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Psalms 58:10

Hebrew

בְּטֶרֶם יָבִינוּ סִּֽירֹתֵיכֶם אָטָד כְּמוֹ־חַי כְּמוֹ־חָרוֹן יִשְׂעָרֶֽנּוּ׃

veterem-yaviynv-siyroteykhem-'atad-khemvo-chay-khemvo-charvon-yishe'arenv

KJV: The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

AKJV: The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

ASV: The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:

YLT: The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.

Exposition: Psalms 58:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Psalms 58:11

Hebrew

יִשְׂמַח צַדִּיק כִּי־חָזָה נָקָם פְּעָמָיו יִרְחַץ בְּדַם הָרָשָֽׁע׃

yishemach-tzadiyq-khiy-chazah-naqam-fe'amayv-yirechatz-vedam-harasha'

KJV: So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

AKJV: So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God that judges in the earth.

ASV: So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:

YLT: And man saith: `Surely fruit is for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'

Exposition: Psalms 58:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.