A moment in scripture
Psalms 58:3
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The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 58:1
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
- Psalms 58:2
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
- Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
- Psalms 58:5
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.