Passage Research
Psalm 58 — Sermon Preparation
David denounces judges who rule wickedly and prays for God to shatter the teeth of the wicked so that people will see there is a God who judges. Below is a research summary for Psalm 58, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 5
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Psalm 58 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| חָזָה | châzâh | H2372 | 2 | gaze, perceive |
| חֵמָה | chêmâh | H2534 | 2 | heat, anger |
| שָׁפַט | shâphaṭ | H8199 | 2 | judge, sentence |
| צַדִּיק | tsaddîyq | H6662 | 2 | just |
| רָשָׁע | râshâʻ | H7563 | 2 | wrong, bad |
| הָלַךְ | hâlak | H1980 | 2 | walk |
| אָדָם | ʼâdâm | H120 | 2 | ruddy, human being |
How preachers through history handled this text
5 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 58, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“It is the probable conjecture of some (Amyraldus particularly) that before Saul began to persecute David by force of arms, and raised the militia to seize him, he formed a process against him by course of law, upon which he was condemned unheard, and attainted as a traitor, by the great council, or supreme court of judicature, and then proclaimed "qui caput gerit lupinum--an outlawed wolf," whom any man might kill and no man might protect. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 58:1–30 (Public Domain)
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