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Psalms 11:7 Darby English Bible (DARBY)

7 For righteous is Jehovah; he loveth righteousness, his countenance doth behold the upright.

Cross Reference

Psalms 45:7 DARBY

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

Psalms 17:15 DARBY

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

Psalms 33:5 DARBY

He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the loving-kindness of Jehovah.

Psalms 99:4 DARBY

And the strength of the king that loveth justice. *Thou* hast established equity: it is thou that executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

Revelation 22:4 DARBY

and they shall see his face; and his name [is] on their foreheads.

1 John 3:2 DARBY

Beloved, now are we children of God, and what we shall be has not yet been manifested; we know that if it is manifested we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

1 Peter 3:12 DARBY

because [the] eyes of [the] Lord [are] on [the] righteous, and his ears towards their supplications; but [the] face of [the] Lord [is] against them that do evil.

Isaiah 61:8 DARBY

For I, Jehovah, love judgment, I hate robbery with wrong; and I will give their recompence in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Psalms 146:8 DARBY

Jehovah openeth [the eyes of] the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;

Job 36:7 DARBY

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted.

Psalms 42:5 DARBY

Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [for] the health of his countenance.

Psalms 34:15 DARBY

The eyes of Jehovah are upon the righteous, and his ears are toward their cry;

Psalms 33:18 DARBY

Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his loving-kindness,

Psalms 21:6 DARBY

For thou hast made him to be blessings for ever; thou hast filled him with joy by thy countenance.

Psalms 7:11 DARBY

God is a righteous judge, and a ùGod who is indignant all the day.

Psalms 7:9 DARBY

Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous [man]; even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God.

Psalms 5:12 DARBY

For thou, Jehovah, wilt bless the righteous [man]; with favour wilt thou surround him as [with] a shield.

Commentary on Psalms 11 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible


PSALM 11

Ps 11:1-7. On title, see Introduction. Alluding to some event in his history, as in 1Sa 23:13, the Psalmist avows his confidence in God, when admonished to flee from his raging persecutors, whose destruction of the usual foundations of safety rendered all his efforts useless. The grounds of his confidence are God's supreme dominion, His watchful care of His people, His hatred to the wicked and judgments on them, and His love for righteousness and the righteous.

1. my soul—me (Ps 3:2).

Flee—literally, "flee ye"; that is, he and his companion.

as a bird to your mountain—having as such no safety but in flight (compare 1Sa 26:20; La 3:52).

2. privily—literally, "in darkness," treacherously.

3. Literally, "The foundations (that is, of good order and law) will be destroyed, what has the righteous done (to sustain them)?" All his efforts have failed.

4. temple … heaven—The connection seems to denote God's heavenly residence; the term used is taken from the place of His visible earthly abode (Ps 2:6; 3:4; 5:7). Thence He inspects men with close scrutiny.

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

6. Their punishment is described by vivid figures denoting abundant, sudden, furious, and utter destruction (compare Ge 19:24; Job 18:15; Ps 7:15; 9:15).

cup—is a frequent figure for God's favor or wrath (Ps 16:5; 23:5; Mt 20:22, 23).

7. his countenance—literally, "their faces," a use of the plural applied to God, as in Ge 1:26; 3:22; 11:7; Isa 6:8, &c., denoting the fulness of His perfections, or more probably originating in a reference to the trinity of persons. "Faces" is used as "eyes" (Ps 11:4), expressing here God's complacency towards the upright (compare Ps 34:15, 16).