Ps 58:1
58:1 <> Do
     ye indeed speak righteousness, O {a} congregation?  do ye
     judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

     (a) You counsellors of Saul, who under pretence of
         consulting for the common wealth, conspire my death
         being an innocent.

Ps 58:2
58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of
     {b} your hands in the earth.

     (b) You are not ashamed to execute that cruelty publicly,
         which you have imagined in your hearts.

Ps 58:3
58:3 The wicked {c} are estranged from the womb: they go astray
     as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

     (c) That is, enemies to the people of God even from their
         birth.

Ps 58:4
58:4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are]
     like the deaf {d} adder [that] stoppeth her ear;

     (d) They pass in malice and subtilty the crafty serpent who
         could preserve himself by stopping his ears from the
         enchanter.

Ps 58:6
58:6 Break their {e} teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the
     great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

     (e) Take away all opportunity and means by which they hurt.

Ps 58:7
58:7 Let them {f} melt away as waters [which] run continually:
     [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them
     be as cut in pieces.

     (f) Considering God's divine power, he shows that God in a
         moment can destroy their force of which they brag.

Ps 58:9
58:9 {g} Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take
     them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his]
     wrath.

     (g) As flesh is taken raw out of the pot before the water
         boils: so he desires God to destroy their enterprises
         before they bring them to pass.

Ps 58:10
58:10 The righteous shall {h} rejoice when he seeth the
      vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the {i} blood of the
      wicked.

      (h) With a pure affection.
      (i) Their punishment and slaughter will be so great.

Ps 58:11
58:11 So that a man shall say, {k} Verily [there is] a reward
      for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the
      earth.

      (k) Seeing God governs all by his providence, he must put
          a difference between the godly and the wicked.

This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College. Last updated on May 27, 1999. Contacting the CCEL.