Psalm 58:2 {57:3}
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For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

in heart

Psalm 21:11 For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.

Ecclesiastes 3:16 I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.

Isaiah 59:4-6 There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity. . . .

Jeremiah 22:16,17 He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good: was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord? . . .

Ezekiel 22:12,27 They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken usury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed thy neighbours: and thou hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God. . . .

Micah 3:1-3,9-12 For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them. . . .

John 11:47-53 The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles? . . .

weigh

Psalm 94:20 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment?

Isaiah 10:1 Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:

Isaiah 26:7 The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk in.

Context
God Judges the Earth
1Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title. [2] If in very deed ye speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men. 2For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.3The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.…
Cross References
Psalm 94:20
Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment?

Isaiah 10:1
Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:

Micah 3:9
But yet I am filled with the strength of the spirit of the Lord, with judgment and power: to declare unto Jacob his wickedness and to Israel his sin.

Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is torn in pieces, and judgment cometh not to the end: because the wicked prevaileth against the just, therefore wrong judgment goeth forth.

Malachi 3:15
Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.

Lexicon
No,
אַף־ (’ap̄-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 637: Meaning accession, yea, adversatively though

in your hearts
בְּלֵב֮ (bə·lêḇ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

you devise
תִּפְעָ֫ל֥וּן (tip̄·‘ā·lūn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's Hebrew 6466: To do, make, to practise

injustice;
עוֹלֹ֪ת (‘ō·w·lōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5766: Injustice, unrighteousness

with your hands
יְ֝דֵיכֶ֗ם (yə·ḏê·ḵem)
Noun - fdc | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3027: A hand

you mete out
תְּפַלֵּֽסֽוּן׃ (tə·p̄al·lê·sūn)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's Hebrew 6424: To roll flat, prepare, to revolve, weigh

violence
חֲמַ֥ס (ḥă·mas)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain

on the earth.
בָּאָ֡רֶץ (bā·’ā·reṣ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land


Additional Translations
No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

For ye work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.

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

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

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

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
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