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19Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
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Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-24)Here the psalmist makes application of the doctrine of God’s omniscience, divers ways. I. He acknowledges, with wonder and thankfulness, the care God had taken of him all his days, Ps. 139:17 , 18 . God, who knew him, thought of him, and his thoughts towards him were thoughts of love, thought of good, and not of evil , Jer. 29:11. God’s omniscience, which might justly have watched over us to do us…
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