Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 58:2

2. Yea, in heart ye work wickedness, ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth .

Or, with your Heart, with free choice and Consent, and not onely by Constraint, and out of Compliance with Saul.

Or, you weigh Violence, or injustice with your Hands. The Phrase of weighing hath respect to their Office, which was to administer Justice, which is usually expressed by a pair of Ballances. So he intimates that they did great wrong under the pretence, and with the Formalities of Justice, and whilst they seemed exactly to weigh and consider the true and fit Proportion between the Actions, and the Recompences alloted to them, they turned the Scale; and Partly, to curry Favour with Saul; and Partly, from their own Malice against David; pronounced an unjust Sentence against him.

Or, in this Land, where God is present, and where you have righteous Laws to govern you, and you profess better things.

Marginal references: Psal. 78. 57.