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Read Full Chapter (Psalms 58) Psalms 58:3-5 KJV
"The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely."
Psalms 58:3-5 in Context (Verses 1–8 KJV)
1
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?**
2
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.*
4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;**
5
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.*
6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7
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.
8
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.