Psalms 34:21 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 34:21

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

KJV

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ASV

Evil shall slay the wicked; And they that hate the righteous shall be condemned.

WEB

Evil will slay the wicked, and the haters of the righteous will be condemned.

YLT

Evil doth put to death the wicked, And those hating the righteous are desolate.

DBT

Evil shall destroy the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall bear their guilt.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Psalms 94:23
And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.
Isaiah 3:11
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Proverbs 24:16
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Psalms 18:39
For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
Psalms 140:11
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

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In this former part of the psalm, I. David engages and excites himself to praise God. Though it was his fault that he changed his behaviour, yet it was God's mercy that he escaped, and the mercy was so much the greater in that God did not deal with him according to the desert of his dissimulation, and we must in every thing give thanks.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Their death shall be miserable; and so it will certainly be, though they die on a bed of down or on the bed of honour. Death, to them, has a curse in it, and is the king of terrors; to them it is evil, only evil. It is very well observed by Dr. Hammond that the evil here, which slays the wicked, is the same word, in the singular number, that is used (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

) and they are continually aiming to do them a mischief; their God loves them, and therefore corrects them; so that, between the mercy of heaven and the malice of hell, the afflictions of the righteous must needs be many. [2.] God has engaged for their deliverance and salvation: He delivers them out of all their troubles (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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