Psalms 58:5-11
respond <08085> [Which.]
That serpents might be charmed or rendered harmless was well known to the ancients. Virgil, and many others state the fact:--{Frigidus in pratis cantando, rumpitur anguis.} "In the meadows the cold snake is burst by incantation."
skilled snake-charmer <02266 02449> [charming never so wisely. or, be the charmer never so cunning.]
break ... teeth <02040 08127> [Break their.]
lions <03715> [young.]
[a snail.--]
{Shabbelool,} in Chaldee {tivlala,} the snail, is probably so called from the Arabic {balla,} to wet, moisten, because of the glutinous slime emitted from its body, by which it appears to waste itself away in its own motion; and in the same manner the wicked prove their own destruction.
moves <01980> [pass.]
stillborn <05309> [untimely.]
kindling <0329> [thorns.]
sweep it away <08175> [as.]
raw <02416> [both living, etc. Heb. as living as wrath.]
godly <06662> [righteous.]
bathe <07364> [wash.]
rewarded <06529> [Verily there is.]
godly ... rewarded <06529 06662> [a reward for. Heb. fruit of the, etc.]
is <03426> [verily he.]
