No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
David challenges his enemies with a piercing question: Do you yourselves not see the justice of my cause? When a man's innocence is evident enough to appeal to his very accusers, he stands on solid ground. He exposes their calumnies by demanding their own testimony to his integrity.
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Commenting on Psalm 58:1-11
These judges rehearse injustice in their hearts before they execute it with their hands. They are cold, calculating villains who weigh out violence with the same deliberation righteous judges weigh law. They work wickedly and do it with malice aforethought.
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A bench of judges, learned in righteous statutes, corrupted by Saul's patronage into instruments of his hatred. They would not speak righteousness or judge uprightly, though that was their sworn office. In the place of judgment itself, wickedness had taken the throne.
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Commenting on Psalm 58:1-5