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21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
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I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
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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