Psalms 58:3
“The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.”
What does Psalms 58:3 mean?
This psalm expresses the deep frustration of someone watching injustice flourish, and the writer is saying that wickedness seems almost innate, showing up in people from their earliest days. The image of going astray "from the womb" isn't making a theological claim about babies being born sinful, but rather capturing how quickly some people develop patterns of deception and harm, as if wrongdoing comes naturally to them. It's the kind of raw observation you might make when you're exhausted by someone's endless dishonesty and you're searching for why they seem constitutionally unable to do right. The psalmist is venting legitimate grief about human corruption, not analyzing developmental psychology.