Psalms 58

Psalms 58:2

Ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

Instead of balancing all things by justice, ye weigh them according to the violence of your own passions: that measure, which may satisfy your malice, and no other, is held sufficient.

Psalms 58:3

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

Neither is this any sudden surprisal with evil, but it is a long continued habit of wickedness: their disposition hath been perverse and malicious, even from their infancy; and so they still continue, proceeding from evil to worse.

Psalms 58:4

5. 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 the charmer, charm he never so wisely.

My enemies, O Lord, are like unto serpents, and their malice like unto deadly poison: yet are they not like every serpent;

Psalms 58:9

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

Let their dispatch be quick and sudden; even before the pot can boil with a fire of dry thorns put under it, let them be consumed: yea, God shall fetch them furiously away, as in a whirlwind; swifter than thought, in the midst of their life and the height of their strength, but in the extremity of his wrath.