Psalms 58:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 58:5

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

KJV

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ASV

Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely.

WEB

refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.

YLT

Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.

DBT

Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely.

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Jeremiah 8:17
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
Deuteronomy 18:11
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
Jeremiah 25:30
Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Not hearken - As they commonly say of the adders, such really are these men: deaf to all my counsels, to their own consciences, and to God's law. Of the charming or enchanting of serpents, mention is made both in other places of scripture, and in all sorts of authors, ancient and modern, Hebrew and Arabick, and Greek and Latin.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

He imprecates and foretels their ruin, and the judgments which the righteous God would bring upon them for their injustice (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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