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Psalms 5:4
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For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;evil cannot dwell with you.
For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.
You are not a God who is pleased with the wicked; you do not live with those who do evil.
Certainly you are not a God who approves of evil; evil people cannot dwell with you.
For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; No evil [person] dwells with You.
For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; No evil can dwell with You.
For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.
For thou art not a God that loueth wickednes: neither shall euill dwell with thee.
For You are not a God who delights in wickedness;Evil does not sojourn with You.
For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.
You are not the kind of God who is pleased with evil. Sinners can't stay with you.
Adonai , in the morning you will hear my voice; in the morning I lay my needs before you and wait expectantly.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with thee.
God, you don't want evil people near you. They cannot stay in your presence.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; neither shall evil dwell with thee.
You are not a God who is pleased with wrongdoing; you allow no evil in your presence.
For you are not a God who desires wickedness. Evil cannot dwell with you.
For You are not a God enjoying wickedness; nor shall evil live with You.
For thou art not the God yt hath pleasure in wickednesse, there maye no vngodly personne dwel with the.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.
For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.
O LORD, in the morning shalt Thou hear my voice; in the morning will I order my prayer unto Thee, and will look forward.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickednesse: neither shall euill dwell with thee.
For thou art the Lorde that hath no pleasure in wickednesse: neither can any euyll dwell with thee.
For thou art not a god that desires iniquity; neither shall the worker of wickedness dwell with thee.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: evil shall not sojourn with thee.
Eerli Y schal stonde nyy thee, and Y schal se; for thou art God not willynge wickidnesse.
For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with you.
For thou [art] not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, Nor shall evil dwell with You.
O God, you take no pleasure in wickedness; you cannot tolerate the sins of the wicked.
You are not a God Who is pleased with what is bad. The sinful cannot be with You.
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil will not sojourn with you.
For, not a GOD finding pleasure in lawlessness, art thou, and wrong can be no guest of thine:
(5-5) In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.
For not a God desiring wickedness [art] Thou, Evil inhabiteth Thee not.
You don't socialize with Wicked, or invite Evil over as your houseguest. Hot-Air-Boaster collapses in front of you; you shake your head over Mischief-Maker. God destroys Lie-Speaker; Blood-Thirsty and Truth-Bender disgust you.
For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; No evil dwells with You.
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And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
Seth lived after the birth of Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and had other sons and daughters.
Enosh lived after the birth of Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and had other sons and daughters.
Kenan lived after the birth of Ma-hal'alel eight hundred and forty years, and had other sons and daughters.
Jared lived after the birth of Enoch eight hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methu'selah three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
Methu'selah lived after the birth of Lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had other sons and daughters.
Lamech lived after the birth of Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and had other sons and daughters.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For thou [art] not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness,.... Sin, ungodliness; it is contrary to his nature, who is holy, just, and good; and to his will revealed in his law, which is the same with his nature; and sin is a transgression of it. God is so far from taking pleasure in sin, that it is the abominable thing which his righteous soul hates; though this hinders not his voluntary permission of sin, or his decree of it; which he has willed, though he does not delight in it, in order to magnify the riches of his grace and mercy in the salvation of his people: nor is this contrary to the delight and pleasure which he takes in the persons of his elect in Christ, though they are sinners in themselves, and were so when he so loved them as to give his Son for them, and who died for them while they were yet sinners; and when he sends his Spirit to regenerate and sanctify them, and are after conversion guilty of many sins: for, though he delights in their persons, he has no pleasure in their sins; nor is it consistent with the holiness of his nature to take pleasure in wickedness, let it be committed by whomsoever;
neither shall evil dwell with thee; that is, the evil man, who continues in a course of wickedness, and lives and dies in his sins. He has no communion with God here, nor shall he dwell with him hereafter; but shall be bid to depart from him, whether he be a profane sinner openly, or secretly a wicked professor of religion. The sense of the psalmist is, that since they were evil and wicked men, that were risen up against him, and gave him trouble, he entertained a strong confidence that God would hear him, for himself and his friends, whose cause was righteous; and appear against his enemies, who were wicked and ungodly men; and this he grounded upon the purity and holiness of God.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness - The psalmist here refers to a well-known and well-understood characteristic of the Divine Being, that he was holy and pure, and that he could not have any pleasure in furthering the designs of wicked men. This is said with reference to his enemies, who were thus wicked; and the idea is that God would not, and could not, consistently with his nature, further their designs. This is the ground of encouragement which he had to pray - that he was conscious that his own aims were right, and that his cause was just, and that God could not favor the cause of the ungodly. This is still, and always will be, a ground of encouragement in prayer. If we know that our cause is right, we may look to God to favor it; if a cause is wrong, we cannot look to him to interpose to advance it. Good men, therefore, pray; wicked men do not.
Neither shall evil dwell with thee - The same idea is here expressed in another form. If God should show favor to the wicked, it would seem as if he admitted them to his habitation, as we do our friends and those in whom we delight. But as God would not do this, the psalmist feels that it was proper for him to call upon Him to deliver him from wicked people.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 5:4. Neither shall evil dwell with thee. — As thou art holy, so thou hast pleasure only in holiness; and as to evil men, they shall never enter into thy glory; לא יגרך רע lo yegurecha ra, "the evil man shall not even sojourn with thee."
