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Psalms 34:21

Evil will cause the death of the wicked, And those who hate the righteous will be held guilty and will be condemned.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Desolation of the Wicked;   Error;   Sin;   Sin-Saviour;   Transgression;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - Desolation;   Evil;   Hate;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hatred;   Righteousness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abimelech;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Anthropomorphism;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abimelech;   Achish;   Acrostic;   David;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Psalms (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Abimelech;   Achish;   Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Luz;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Calamity will surely destroy the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be punished.
English Revised Version
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be condemned.
Update Bible Version
Evil shall slay the wicked; And those that hate the righteous shall be condemned.
New Century Version
Evil will kill the wicked; those who hate good people will be judged guilty.
New English Translation
Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished.
Webster's Bible Translation
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
World English Bible
Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
English Standard Version
Affliction will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The deth of synneris is werst; and thei that haten a iust man schulen trespasse.
Berean Standard Bible
Evil will slay the wicked, and the haters of the righteous will be condemned.
Contemporary English Version
Wicked people are killed by their own evil deeds, and if you hate God's people you will be punished.
American Standard Version
Evil shall slay the wicked; And they that hate the righteous shall be condemned.
Bible in Basic English
Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.
Complete Jewish Bible
He protects all his bones; not one of them gets broken.
Darby Translation
Evil shall destroy the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall bear their guilt.
Easy-to-Read Version
But troubles will kill the wicked. The enemies of those who live right will all be punished.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.
King James Version (1611)
Euill shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shalbe desolate.
New Life Bible
Sin will kill the sinful. And those who hate God's people will be held guilty and punished forever.
New Revised Standard
Evil brings death to the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But malice shal slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous, shall perish.
George Lamsa Translation
Evil shall slay the wicked, and they that hate the righteous shall be destroyed.
Good News Translation
Evil will kill the wicked; those who hate the righteous will be punished.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Misfortune shall be the death of the lawless one, And, the haters of the righteous man, shall be held guilty.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(33-22) The death of the wicked is very evil: and they that hate the just shall be guilty.
Revised Standard Version
Evil shall slay the wicked; and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Malice shal put the vngodly to death: and they that hate the righteous, shalbe brought to naught.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The death of sinners is evil: and they that hate righteousness will go wrong.
Christian Standard Bible®
Evil brings death to the wicked,and those who hate the righteous will be punished.
Hebrew Names Version
Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
King James Version
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Lexham English Bible
Evil will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will incur guilt.
Literal Translation
Evil shall slay the wicked; yea, those who hate the righteous shall become guilty.
Young's Literal Translation
Evil doth put to death the wicked, And those hating the righteous are desolate.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But mi?fortune shal slaye the vngodly, and they that hate ye rightuous shal be giltie.
THE MESSAGE
The wicked commit slow suicide; they waste their lives hating the good.
New American Standard Bible
Evil will bring death to the wicked, And those who hate the righteous will suffer for their guilt.
New King James Version
Evil shall slay the wicked, And those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Evil shall slay the wicked, And those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
Legacy Standard Bible
Evil shall slay the wicked,And those who hate the righteous will be condemned.

Contextual Overview

11Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you to fear the LORD [with awe-inspired reverence and worship Him with obedience]. 12Who is the man who desires life And loves many days, that he may see good? 13Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit. 14Turn away from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it. 15The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous [those with moral courage and spiritual integrity] And His ears are open to their cry. 16The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth. 17When the righteous cry [for help], the LORD hears And rescues them from all their distress and troubles. 18The LORD is near to the heartbroken And He saves those who are crushed in spirit (contrite in heart, truly sorry for their sin). 19Many hardships and perplexing circumstances confront the righteous, But the LORD rescues him from them all. 20He keeps all his bones; Not one of them is broken.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Evil: Psalms 37:30-40, Psalms 94:23, Isaiah 3:11

they: Psalms 37:12-15, Psalms 40:15, Psalms 89:23, 1 Samuel 19:4, 1 Samuel 19:5, 1 Samuel 31:4, 1 Kings 22:8, 1 Kings 22:37, Luke 19:14, Luke 19:27, Luke 19:41-44, John 7:7, John 15:18-23, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:16, 2 Thessalonians 1:6, 2 Thessalonians 1:9

desolate: or, guilty, Exodus 20:7

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 18:7 - I hate him Psalms 18:39 - that Psalms 20:8 - They Psalms 140:11 - evil

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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" n; 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.

n יאשמו "rei fiunt", Cocceius; "reatum habebunt", Schmidt; "damnabuntur", Gejerus; "shall be condemned as guilty", Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Evil shall slay the wicked - That is, his own wicked conduct will be the cause of his destruction. His ruin is not arbitrary, or the mere result of a divine appointment; it is caused by sin, and is the regular and natural consequence of guilt. In the destruction of the sinner, there will not be any one thing which cannot be explained by the supposition that it is the regular effect of sin, or what sin is, in its own nature, suited to produce. The one will measure the other; guilt will be the measure of all that there is in the punishment.

And they that hate the righteous - Another term for the wicked, or a term designating the character of the wicked in one aspect or view. It is true of all the wicked that they must hate the righteous in their hearts, or that they are so opposed to the character of the righteous that it is proper to designate this feeling as “hatred.”

Shall be desolate - Margin, “shall be guilty.” Prof. Alexander and Hengstenberg render this, as in the margin, “shall be guilty.” DeWette, “shall repent.” Rosenmuller, “shall be condemned.” The original word - אשׁם 'âsham - means properly to fail in duty, to transgress, to be guilty. The primary idea, says Gesenius (Lexicon), is that of “negligence,” especially in going, or in gait, as of a camel that is slow or faltering. Then the word means to be held or treated as faulty or guilty; and then, to bear the consequences of guilt, or to be punished. This seems to be the idea here. The word is sometimes synonymous with another Hebrew word - ישׁם yâsham - meaning to be desolate; to be destroyed; to be laid waste: Ezekiel 6:6; Joel 1:18; Psalms 5:10. But the usual meaning of the word is undoubtedly retained here, as signifying that, in the dealings of Providence, or in the administering of divine government, such men will be held to be guilty, and will be treated accordingly; that is, that they will be punished.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 34:21. Evil shall slay the wicked — The very thing in which they delight shall become their bane and their ruin.

They that hate the righteous — All persecutors of God's people shall be followed by the chilling blast of God's displeasure in this world; and if they repent not, shall perish everlastingly.


 
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