Psalms 34:15,16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous This is added to show that the practice of these duties (Psa 34:13-14) is the true and best, and, indeed, the only way to see that good proposed and promised; both because such righteous persons, howsoever they may meet with affronts and injuries from men, are under the special care of God, signified in this verse, and those who do the evils there forbidden shall find, to their cost, that God is their enemy, Psalms 34:16. The face of the Lord That is, his anger, often called his face, because anger discovers itself in a person's face; is against them that do evil That commit known sin in any instances, especially in those above mentioned. To cut off the remembrance of them, &c. Utterly to root them out and destroy them, and so to deprive both them and their children of that worldly happiness, which is the only thing that they desire, and seek by their wicked courses.

Psalms 34:15-16

15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.