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No, in your heart you plan injustices;
in the land[a] you weigh out the violence of your hands.
The wicked are estranged from the womb.
They go astray from the belly, speaking lies.
Their venom is like snake venom;
They are like a deaf viper that closes its ear

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 58:2 Or “on the earth”

No, in your heart you devise injustice,(A)
    and your hands mete out violence on the earth.(B)

Even from birth the wicked go astray;
    from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.
Their venom is like the venom of a snake,(C)
    like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,

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