Psalm 58:3
New International Version
Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.

New Living Translation
These wicked people are born sinners; even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.

English Standard Version
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Berean Standard Bible
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

King James Bible
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

New King James Version
The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

New American Standard Bible
The wicked have turned away from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.

NASB 1995
The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.

NASB 1977
The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.

Legacy Standard Bible
The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak falsehood wander in error from birth.

Amplified Bible
The wicked are estranged from the womb; These go astray from birth, speaking lies [even twisted partial truths].

Christian Standard Bible
The wicked go astray from the womb; liars wander about from birth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The wicked go astray from the womb; liars err from birth.

American Standard Version
The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The evil are set apart from the belly and have gone astray from the womb, speaking lies.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.

Contemporary English Version
You have done wrong and lied from the day you were born.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

English Revised Version
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[Even] inside the womb wicked people are strangers [to God]. From their birth liars go astray.

Good News Translation
Evildoers go wrong all their lives; they tell lies from the day they are born.

International Standard Version
The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The wicked are estranged from the womb; The speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.

Literal Standard Version
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, | They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

Majority Standard Bible
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

New American Bible
The wicked have been corrupt since birth; liars from the womb, they have gone astray.

NET Bible
The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.

New Revised Standard Version
The wicked go astray from the womb; they err from their birth, speaking lies.

New Heart English Bible
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Webster's Bible Translation
The wicked are estranged from their birth: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

World English Bible
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Young's Literal Translation
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

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Context
God Judges the Earth
2No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth. 3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth. 4Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,…

Cross References
Psalm 14:3
All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Psalm 51:5
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

Psalm 52:3
You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah

Psalm 53:3
All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Isaiah 48:8
You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.


Treasury of Scripture

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

estranged

Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

as soon [heb.

Psalm 22:10
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

Isaiah 46:3
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

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Psalm 58
1. David reproves wicked judges
3. describes the nature of the wicked
6. devotes them to God's judgments
10. whereat the righteous shall rejoice














(3) The Wicked.--The poet passes from his indignant challenge to the unjust judges to speak of the wicked generally. He finds that such maturity of vice points to very early depravity. Such hardened sinners must have been cradled in wickedness.

Verse 3. - The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. This is the language of hyperbole, and is certainly not the profession of the doctrine of original sin. What the psalmist means is that those who ultimately become heinous sinners, for the most part show, even from their early childhood, a strong tendency towards evil. He implies that with others the case is different. Though there may be in them a corruption of nature (Psalm 51:6), yet, on the whole, they have good dispositions, and present a contrast to the ungodly ones whom he is describing.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The wicked
רְשָׁעִ֣ים (rə·šā·‘îm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

are estranged
זֹ֣רוּ (zō·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery

from the womb;
מֵרָ֑חֶם (mê·rā·ḥem)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7358: The womb

the liars
דֹּבְרֵ֥י (dō·ḇə·rê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

go astray
תָּע֥וּ (tā·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 8582: To vacillate, reel, stray

from birth.
מִ֝בֶּ֗טֶן (mib·be·ṭen)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 990: The belly, the womb, the bosom, body of anything


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