Psalm 11:5

5 Jehova prüft den Gerechten; und den Gesetzlosen und den, der Gewalttat liebt, haßt seine Seele.

Psalm 11:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 11:5

The Lord trieth the righteous
As gold is tried in the fire, by afflictive providences; hereby he tries their graces, their faith, and patience, their hope, and love, and fear; and, by so doing, expresses his love to them, since this is all for their good: and therefore, when he suffers the wicked to go great lengths in persecuting and distressing them, this should not weaken, their confidence in him; he still loves them, and loves when he rebukes and chastises them;

but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth;
that is, such who live in a course of sin and wickedness, and who not only do injury to the persons, characters, and properties of men, but love it, and delight therein, and also take pleasure in them that do the same: these God has a continued and inward aversion to; sin and wickedness being the abominable thing his righteous soul hates: and he shows his hatred to them, by not chastising them now, as he does his own people, but reserving everlasting punishment for them hereafter; see ( Proverbs 13:24 ) .

Psalm 11:5 In-Context

3 Wenn die Grundpfeiler umgerissen werden, was tut dann der Gerechte?

4 Jehova ist in seinem heiligen Palast. Jehova, in den Himmeln ist sein Thron; seine Augen schauen, seine Augenlider prüfen die Menschenkinder.

5 Jehova prüft den Gerechten; und den Gesetzlosen und den, der Gewalttat liebt, haßt seine Seele.

6 Er wird Schlingen regnen lassen auf die Gesetzlosen; Feuer und Schwefel und Glutwind wird das Teil ihres Bechers sein.

7 Denn gerecht ist Jehova, Gerechtigkeiten liebt er. Sein Angesicht schaut den Aufrichtigen an.