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For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can`t live with you.
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God's Holiness Fuels Prayer
Commentators explain that David's prayer is built on a crucial truth: God's holy nature. Because God does not take pleasure in wickedness and cannot fellowship with evil, believers can confidently appeal to Him for justice. This understanding turns God's character into a powerful foundation for our prayers, especially when facing injustice.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness—The psalmist here refers to a well-known and well-understood characteristic…
19th Century
Anglican
Neither shall evil. —Better, the wicked man is not your guest. For the same thought, see Psalm 15; and for the opposite, …
Baptist
In both of these Psalms there is a clear line drawn between the righteous and the wicked; this is a line which still needs to be kept very clear, a…
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16th Century
Protestant
Here David makes the malice and wickedness of his enemies an argument to support his prayer for divine favor toward him. The language is indeed abr…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For you [are] not a God that has pleasure in wickedness Sin, ungodliness; it is contrary to his nature, who is holy,…
God is a prayer-hearing God. He has always been so, and he is still as ready to hear prayer as ever. The most encouraging principle of prayer, and …
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Previously, the psalmist openly prayed against his persecutors; here he prays against the deceitful, that he may not be misled.
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