Psalms 58:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 94:20 : 20 What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
  • Isa 10:1 : 1 Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
  • Isa 26:7 : 7 The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.
  • Isa 59:4-6 : 4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil. 5 They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake. 6 Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
  • Jer 22:16-17 : 16 He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord. 17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right? 2 You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones; 3 Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight. 10 They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing. 11 Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us. 12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.
  • Mal 3:15 : 15 And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.
  • John 11:47-53 : 47 Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs. 48 If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation. 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You have no knowledge of anything; 50 You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction. 51 He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation; 52 And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world. 53 And from that day they took thought together how to put him to death.
  • Eccl 3:16 : 16 And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 58:1
    79%

    1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David.> Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?

  • Isa 59:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3 For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

    4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

  • Mic 2:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

    2 They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

  • Mic 7:3
    76%

    3 Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

  • Isa 59:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

    7 Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

  • Prov 6:18
    75%

    18 A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

  • Ps 26:10
    74%

    10 In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

  • Ps 64:6
    74%

    6 Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.

  • Ps 58:3
    73%

    3 The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

  • Jer 22:17
    73%

    17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

  • Ps 28:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

    4 Give them the right reward of their acts, and of their evil doings: give them punishment for the works of their hands, let them have their full reward.

  • Prov 1:16
    73%

    16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

  • Mic 6:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

    11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

    12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

  • Job 6:27
    73%

    27 Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

  • Isa 57:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

    5 You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?

  • Isa 59:13
    72%

    13 We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.

  • Ps 140:2
    72%

    2 For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.

  • Jer 4:18
    72%

    18 Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

  • Hos 4:2
    72%

    2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Rom 3:15
    72%

    15 Their feet are quick in running after blood;

  • Amos 5:7
    72%

    7 You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

  • Ps 50:19
    72%

    19 You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

  • Job 36:17
    72%

    17 ...

  • Job 11:14
    72%

    14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

  • Prov 11:18
    72%

    18 The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

  • Eccl 8:11
    71%

    11 Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.

  • Isa 3:9
    71%

    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Ps 7:14
    71%

    14 That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

  • Prov 24:2
    71%

    2 For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

  • Ezek 22:13
    71%

    13 See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.

  • Isa 58:4
    71%

    4 If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.

  • Hos 10:13
    71%

    13 You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.

  • Job 15:35
    71%

    35 Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

  • Ps 52:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

    3 You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

  • Job 10:3
    71%

    3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

  • Matt 15:19
    71%

    19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

  • Ps 10:15
    71%

    15 Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.

  • Isa 1:15
    71%

    15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

  • Prov 4:17
    71%

    17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • Hos 6:8
    71%

    8 Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

  • Amos 6:3
    71%

    3 You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;

  • Ps 144:8
    71%

    8 In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.