Psalms 11:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright. ”

Psalms 11:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness - This would be more correctly rendered, “For Jehovah is righteous; he loves righteousness.” The idea is, that God is himself righteous, and, consequen...
Psalms 11:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XI. Yahweh the Sure Refuge. Psalms 11:1-3 . The problem stated. The wicked are bold: the righteous cannot meet their attack. They can but flee like a little bird (the habitual meaning of the word...
Psalms 11:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

His countenance doth behold the upright . An upright one shall gaze upon His face. One of the emendations of the Sopherim. See App-33, and note on Exodus 34:20 .
Psalms 11:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7. For the righteous Jehovah loveth righteousness. The Psalmist has just now reasoned from the office of God that he will punish the wicked, and now, from the nature of God, he concludes, th...
Psalms 11:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright. The righteous Lord loveth righteousness - He loves that which resembles himself. His countenance - his face - is...
Psalms 11:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

His countenance doth behold the upright— His countenance beholds equity; i.e. with approbation and favour. Houb. REFLECTIONS.— Temptation and prayer brighten the true believer's soul; none, pe...
Psalms 11:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright. For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness - (God by His very nature cannot do otherwise than favour the...
Psalms 11:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

of the Messianic hope in Psalms 2, 20, 28,, 40. The following Pss. are either quoted from or distinctly referred to in NT.: 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24, 32, 34, 40, 41. In several instances th...
Psalms 11:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

His countenance. — Better, the upright shall behold His countenance. This beautiful religious hope finds its highest expression in the beatitude on the pure in heart. The beatific vision in Dante...
Psalms 11:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 11:1-7 The correctness of the superscription is, in the present case, defended by Ewald and Hitzig. Delitzsch refers the psalm to the eve of Absalom's conspiracy, while other supporters of...
Psalms 11:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God Our Refuge and Defense Psalms 11:1-7 ; Psalms 12:1-8 The first of these is a debate between fear and faith, and dates from Saul's persecutions. Timid friends, anxious for David's safety, u...
Psalms 11:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This psalm is the answer of faith to the advice of fear. Both are alike conscious of immediate peril. Fear sees only the things that are near. Faith takes in the larger distances. If the things fear...
Psalms 11:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Very awful must be the termination of a life of sin, to whatever age protracted, or however lengthened. Tell ye the righteous it shall be well with him. Woe unto the wicked! it shalt be ill with him....
Psalms 11:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness ,.... The Lord is righteous in himself, and in all his ways and works; and therefore righteousness, as it lies both in punishing the wicked, and in mainta...
Psalms 11:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright. Ver. 7. For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness ] sc. As a reflection of himself, as a piece of his own...
Psalms 11:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness This is mentioned as the reason why God punishes the wicked so dreadfully. It is because, being righteous, essentially righteous, himself, he cannot but...
Psalms 11:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

4 The L ORD is in his holy temple, the L ORD 's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. 5 The L ORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him th...
Psalms 11:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This is given as the reason why God hateth and punisheth wicked men so dreadfully, because he loves righteousness, and therefore must needs hate wickedness and punish wicked men. Or, but , as this p...
Psalms 11:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH tries the righteous, But the unrighteous and him who loves violence his soul hates. On the unrighteous he will rain snares, Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cu...
Psalms 11:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “The friends of David advise him in this psalm to flee unto the mountainous parts of the land of Judah, in order to avoid the danger which was threatening him, should he remain in the p...
Psalms 11:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 11:1 . Flee as a bird to your mountain, the hill country of Judea. When hiding from Saul, and when the wicked bent their bow against him, it was prudent to shun the snares. Psalms 11:3 ....
Psalms 11:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

In the Lord put I my trust. Jehovah the Protector and Avenger of the persecuted saint The Psalmist, beset by malicious foes, is warned by some of his adherents to seek refuge in flight. The Psa...
Psalms 11:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION ASCRIBED to David in the "title," this psalm is almost universally allowed to be his. It "has all the characteristics of the earlier Davidic psalms." No allusion enables us to assig...
Psalms 11:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

David's Refusal to Flee When in Danger of Life. There was a time when David's throne was in danger, when Absalom was scheming to usurp the royal power in Israel, when David's very life was no long...
Psalms 11:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 3:12 ; Isaiah 61:8 ; Job 36:7 ; Psalms 146:8 ; Psalms 21:6 ; Psalms 33:18 ; Psalms 34:15 ; Psalms 42:5 ; Psalms 45:7 ; Psalms 5:12 ; Psalms 99:4

Psalms 11:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 11:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 11:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 11:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 11:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 11:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 11:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 11:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 11:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 11:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 11:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 11:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 11:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 11:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 11:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 11:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 11:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 11:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 11:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 11:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 11:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 11:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 11:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 11:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 11:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge