Psalms 58:3

What does Psalms 58:3 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 58:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Context

v.2Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

v.3This passage

v.4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 48:8

    Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

  • Proverbs 22:15

    Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; Butthe rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

  • Job 15:14

    What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

  • Psalms 22:10

    I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me.

  • Ephesians 2:3

    among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:—

  • Isaiah 46:3

    Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borneby mefrom their birth, that have been carried from the womb;

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