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NASB | Psalm 5:5 The boastful shall not stand before Your eyes; You hate all who do iniquity. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 5:5 The boastful and the arrogant will not stand in Your sight; You hate all who do evil. |
Bible Question: Psalm 5:5 "for you hate all who do evil". My youth group and I are struggling with this one. They're not understanding how God can hate anyone if he's supposed to be a God of love. Can someone give me a way to explain it well? |
Bible Answer: TKBjork: God is love (1 John 4:8). But He is also a holy and righteous God with whom no evil dwells, as David says in Psalm 5:4. Having just made the declaration (in verse 4) about God's attributes, i.e. that God is not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness and with Him no evil dwells, David lists in verses 5 and 6 certain categories of evil persons and their deeds -- he mentions the boastful, all who do iniquity, liars, murderers, deceivers -- that God hates (in verse 5) and abhors (in verse 6). The word translated "hates" in verse 5 may or may not be the same Hebrew word that is translated "abhors" in verse 6; I don't know ancient Hebrew. I do know English and know that hate and abhor are synonymous. (Note the sense in which "abhor" is used in Romans 12:9). ...... To give balance to this attribute of God, i.e., His hatred of evil, move down in the same Psalm, Psalm 5, to verses 11 and 12. Here the psalmist speaks of the loving and sheltering nature of God toward the righteous who take refuge in Him. In verses 4-7 David is speakig of the wicked and their works of evil; in verses 11 and 12 he is speaking of the righteous and the joy, blessings and protection that God bestows upon them. ..... In this Psalm we see two attributes of God: his hatred of the wicked and their evil deeds, and his love and protection of the righteous who trust in Him. Popular theology of our time commonly ignores (or denies) this first attribute of God (His wrath) and dwells almost wholly on the second (His love). But this is not what Scripture does, as evidenced by the these two contrasting attributes of God being placed in juxtaposition in Psalm 5. --Hank |