Psalms 11:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Psalms 11:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 6:16-19
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: …
James 1:12
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Psalms 26:2
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
Genesis 22:1
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Depravity of Man God Guidance Guilt Lord Majesty

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-7)

The shaking of a tree (they say) makes it take the deeper and faster root. The attempt of David’s enemies to discourage his confidence in God engages him to cleave so much the more closely to his first principles, and to review them, which he here does, abundantly to his own satisfaction and the silencing of all temptations to infidelity. That which was shocking to his faith, and has been so to th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. The trial of the righteous results in their approval, as it is contrasted with God’s hatred to the wicked.