“But now ye do what? Why these things to you do I speak? "Because in heart iniquities ye work on earth" [Psalm 58:2]. Iniquities perchance in heart alone? Hear what followeth: both their heart hands do follow, and their heart hands do serve, the thing is thought of, and it is done; or else it is not done, not because w…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 58
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2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
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1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
— Psalms 58:2 —
3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;