Psalms 58

Giga Bible (GIGAKJV) · 11 verses · 9 differ from the KJV
  1. 1Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? Do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?
  2. 2Yes, in heart you work evil, you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
  3. 3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
  4. 4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf snake that stops her ear.
  5. 5Which will not listen to the voice of charmers, however skillfully they charm.
  6. 6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
  7. 7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
  8. 8As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
  9. 9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
  10. 10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
  11. 11So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God that judges in the earth.

What changed from the KJV

GIGAKJV is a modern English revision of the King James Version. The comparison below uses the project's KJV text in the later 1769 tradition and marks, word by word, each verse of Psalms 58 where the wording differs: struck-through words are the KJV's, highlighted words are GIGAKJV's.

Psalms 58:1

KJVDo ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

GIGAKJVDo you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? Do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?

Psalms 58:2

KJVYea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

GIGAKJVYes, in heart you work evil, you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

Psalms 58:3

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

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

Psalms 58:4

KJVTheir poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

GIGAKJVTheir poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf snake that stops her ear.

Psalms 58:5

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

GIGAKJVWhich will not listen to the voice of charmers, however skillfully they charm.

Psalms 58:7

KJVLet them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

GIGAKJVLet them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

Psalms 58:8

KJVAs a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

GIGAKJVAs a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Psalms 58:10

KJVThe righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

GIGAKJVThe righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Psalms 58:11

KJVSo that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

GIGAKJVSo that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God that judges in the earth.

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