Psalms 58:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 58

¹To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

Psalms 58:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 57:1
To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Isaiah 11:3-5
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: …
Deuteronomy 16:18-19
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. …
Psalms 72:1-4
A Psalm for Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. …
2 Chronicles 19:6-7
And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

We have reason to think that this psalm refers to the malice of Saul and his janizaries against David, because it bears the same inscription (Al-taschith, and Michtam of David) with that which goes before and that which follows, both which appear, by the title, to have been penned with reference to that persecution through which God preserved him (Al-taschith—Destroy not), and therefore the psalms…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Psa 58:1-11. David’s critical condition in some period of the Sauline persecution probably occasioned this Psalm, in which the Psalmist teaches that the innate and actual sinfulness of men deserves, and shall receive, God’s righteous vengeance, while the pious may be consoled by the evidence of His wise and holy government of men. 1. O congregation--literally, “Oh, dumb”; the word used is never tr…