the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Psalms 119:113
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I hate those who are double‑minded,But I love Your law.
Samekh.
I hate those who are double-minded, But I love Your law.I hate hygh subtile deuices: and I do loue thy lawe.
SAMECH. The double-minded have I hated; but thy law do I love.
I hate the double-minded, But I love Your law.
SAMECH: I hate the halfhearted; but I love Your Law.
Lord, I hate those who are not completely loyal to you, but I love your teachings.
I hate double-minded men, But I love your law.
[SAMECH.] I hate vaine thoughts: but thy Law doe I loue.
I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
I hate ye vngodly, but thy lawe do I loue.
I hate the two-faced, but I love your clear-cut revelation. You're my place of quiet retreat; I wait for your Word to renew me. Get out of my life, evildoers, so I can keep my God's commands. Take my side as you promised; I'll live then for sure. Don't disappoint all my grand hopes. Stick with me and I'll be all right; I'll give total allegiance to your definitions of life. Expose all who drift away from your sayings; their casual idolatry is lethal. You reject earth's wicked as so much rubbish; therefore I lovingly embrace everything you say. I shiver in awe before you; your decisions leave me speechless with reverence.
I hate those who are double-minded, But I love and treasure Your law.
ס Samekh.
I hate them that are of a double mind; But thy law do I love.SAMEK I hate those that are of a double mind; But I love your law.
SAMECH. I hate [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love.
ס (Samek)
I hate people with divided loyalties, but I love your law.I hate anyone whose loyalty is divided, but I love your Law.
ס (Samekh)
I hate doubleminded people, but I love your Torah.Samech. I hate vaine inuentions: but thy Lawe doe I loue.
SEMKETH. I hate the wicked; but thy law do I love.
I hate double-minded men, But I love your law.
Samekh
I hate those with divided loyalties, but I love your instructions.I hate those who have two ways of thinking, but I love Your Law.
I have hated transgressors; but I have loved thy law.
I hate them that are of a double mind; but thy law do I love.
The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.
I hate the double-minded, but I love your law.
[SAMECH] Half-hearted ones, do I hate, but, thy law, do I love.
(118-113) I have hated the unjust: and have loved thy law.
I hate the double-minded, but I love your law.
Samekh
I hate the double-minded, but I love your law.I hate those who are double-minded, But I love Your Law.
I hate disloyal people, but I love your teachings.
I hate those who are not completely loyal to you, but I love your law.
ס Samek
I hate those who are double-minded, but I love Your instruction.I hatide wickid men; and Y louede thi lawe.
I hate double-minded men, but I love thy law.
[Samech.] Doubting ones I have hated, And Thy law I have loved.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hate: Psalms 94:11, Isaiah 55:7, Jeremiah 4:14, Mark 7:21, 2 Corinthians 10:5
vain thoughts: Or, "divided thoughts," saiaphim, or, as Gesenius renders, die Zweideutigen (in der Religion) "ambiguities (or indecisions) in Religion;" Luther, Flattergeister, "inconstant fellows;" LXX, נבסבםןלןי, "transgressors," Vulgate iniqui, "iniquitous," and Jerome, tumultuosos, "tumultuous."
thy law: Psalms 119:97, Psalms 119:103
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 29:18 - in the imagination Psalms 101:3 - set Psalms 119:163 - hate Proverbs 24:9 - thought Matthew 15:19 - evil Romans 7:15 - what I hate Romans 7:22 - I delight
Gill's Notes on the Bible
o, SAMECH.--The Fifteenth Part.
Ver. 113. SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts,.... Or thoughts: evil thoughts are undoubtedly meant, no other can be the object of hatred to a good man; they are such as are contrary to the law of God, and forbidden by it, mentioned in the next clause as the object of love, in opposition to these; and which are abominable to God, and defiling to men; should be forsaken, need pardon; and, if not pardoned, will be brought into judgment, and there exposed, and men punished for them. There are multitudes of these rise up in the minds of men, not only bad men, but good men; even sometimes atheistical blasphemous thoughts, as well as proud, haughty, revengeful, lustful, impure, and worldly ones; which, when observed by a good man, give him great concern and uneasiness, and raise a holy indignation in him against them. The word is used for the "opinions" of men; the ambiguous, doubtful, wavering, and inconstant sentiments of the mind, 1 Kings 18:21, and is used of branches, or the tops of trees, waved with the wind to and fro: and may be applied to all heterodox opinions, human doctrines, damnable heresies; such as are inconsistent with the perfections of God, derogate from his grace, and from the person and offices of Christ; and are contrary to the word, and which are therefore rejected and abhorred by good men. The Targum is,
"I hate those who think vain thoughts;''
and so Jarchi and Aben Ezra interpret it of persons, thinkers, or devisers of evil things; and to this sense are the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions; and which is approved of by Gussetius k; even free thinkers, such as devise things out of their own brains, and regard not the law, doctrine, or word of God;
but thy law do I love; which forbids and condemns such vain and wicked thoughts, and requires pure and Holy Ones. Or, "thy doctrine"; which comes from God, is concerning him, and reveals his mind and will, his grace and love, to men; the doctrine of Christ, concerning his person, office, and work; the doctrine of the Scriptures, which contain the whole Gospel of Christ, as well as the law of God; the doctrine according to godliness, and which is good, sound, and wholesome, and to be received in the love of it.
k Ebr. Comment. p. 564.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I hate vain thoughts - This commences a new portion of the psalm, distinguished by the Hebrew letter Samech (ס s), answering to our “s.” The word rendered “vain thoughts” occurs only in this place. It is rendered by the Septuagint, παρανόμους paranomous - transgressors. So the Latin Vulgate. Luther renders it “die Flattergeister,” the frivolous-minded. The word means divided; a man of a divided mind; a man who has no sure faith in regard to divine things, but is driven here and there; a sceptic; a doubter. Compare James 1:8. Thus it refers not to his own thoughts primarily, as being “vain” or worthless, but to a state of mind or heart in general, where there is no firmness, no stability, no settled view: a state of mind wavering, doubtful, skeptical, in regard to religion. What is implied here in reference to what he loved - by stating (in the way of contrast) what he “hated,” - would be a mind which was settled in its convictions of truth, and firm in its adherence to truth; a mind which was steadfast in religion, and not vacillating, skeptical, or uncertain on the subject. This denotes that the psalmist sought such a state of mind for himself, and that he valued it in others.
But thy law do I love - I have no “divided” or unsettled feelings in regard to that. I am conscious of a firm attachment to it. This thought he has repeatedly expressed in the psalm.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
LETTER ס SAMECH. - Fifteenth Division
Verse Psalms 119:113. I hate vain thoughts — I have hated סעפים seaphim, "tumultuous, violent men." I abominate all mobs and insurrections, and troublers of the public peace.
