Psalms 58:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

Psalms 58:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 8:17
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
Deuteronomy 18:11
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Animals Charmers and Charming Deafness Depravity of Man Godlessness Heart Impenitence

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. 5)

3-5. describe the wicked generally, who sin naturally, easily, malignantly, and stubbornly.