Psalm 34:21

21 et dilataverunt super me os suum dixerunt euge euge viderunt oculi nostri

Psalm 34:21 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 34:21

Evil shall slay the wicked
Meaning either the evil they designed against the righteous shall return and fall upon their heads, to their own ruin; or the evil of affliction, which to them is the evil of punishment, both here and hereafter, from which they will have no deliverance in the end; though the righteous have from their afflictions, being not properly punishments, but chastisements for sin, and are but for a time; or else the evil of sin, which is the cause of death corporeal and eternal;

and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate;
or "shall be guilty" ^F14; be found so; or "shall be condemned", or "damned", as the Targum renders it. All wicked men hate the righteous, both Jesus Christ the righteous, and his people; and that because they are righteous, and do not run into the same excess of wickedness with them, these will be arraigned at the day of judgment, and will be convicted of all their hard speeches which they have spoken against Christ and his members; and will be pronounced guilty, and will be punished with everlasting destruction.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 (wmvay) "rei fiunt", Cocceius; "reatum habebunt", Schmidt; "damnabuntur", Gejerus; "shall be condemned as guilty", Ainsworth.

Psalm 34:21 In-Context

19 non supergaudeant mihi qui adversantur mihi inique qui oderunt me gratis et annuunt oculis

20 quoniam mihi quidem pacifice loquebantur et in iracundia * terrae loquentes; dolos cogitabant

21 et dilataverunt super me os suum dixerunt euge euge viderunt oculi nostri

22 vidisti Domine ne sileas Domine ne discedas a me

23 exsurge et intende iudicio meo Deus meus et Dominus meus in causam meam