Psalms 11:7

_FOR THE RIGHTEOUS LORD LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS; HIS COUNTENANCE DOTH BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT._ FOR THE RIGHTEOUS LORD LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS - (God by His very nature cannot do otherwise than favour the saints and punish sinners. HIS COUNTENANCE DOTH BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT - with approbation. Compare "His eyes behold" (Psalms 11:4; and Psalms 34:15). The Hebrew for "His" is plural х_ PAANEEYMOW_ (H6440)], a hint of the plurality of persons in _ 'ELOHIYM_ (H430). Compare Genesis 1:26, "us ... our ... our....

7._For the righteous Jehovah loveth righteousness. _The Psalmist has just now reasoned from the office of God that he will punish the wicked, and now, from the nature of God, he concludes, that he will be the defender of the good and the upright. As he is righteous, David shows that, as the consequence of this, he must love righteousness, for otherwise he would deny himself. Besides, it would be a cold speculation to conceive of righteousness as inherent in God, unless, at the same time, we could come to the settled conclusion that God graciously owns whatever is his own, and furnishes evidence of this in the government of the world. Some think that the abstract term _righteousness _is put for _righteous persons. _But, in my opinion, the literal sense is here more suitable, namely, that righteousness is well pleasing to God, and that, therefore, he favors good causes. From this the Psalm...

Verse Psalms 11:7. _THE RIGHTEOUS LORD LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS_] He loves that which resembles himself. _His countenance _- his face - is ever open and unclouded to the upright. They always enjoy his salvation, and know that he is pleased with them. The preceding verse my old MS. translates and paraphrases thus: - _He sal rayne on synful, snares, fyre, brimstane, and gost of_ _stormis_. _Par_. - He sal rayne on synful in this werld, _snares_, that es wiked Lare: _fyre_ is covatyse: _brunstane_, that es stynk of il werkes: and _gost of stormis_, that es a stormy though that es withoutyn rest in Ihesu Crist, and ay es traveld with the wynd of the devel. Or _the_ _gast of stormys_, es the last depertyng of synful fra ryghtwis men, and there fyre, brunston, storm, er part of the chalyie of thaim:

FOR THE RIGHTEOUS LORD LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS - This would be more correctly rendered, “For Jehovah is righteous; he loves righteousness.” The idea is, that God is himself righteous, and, consequently, he loves those who are righteous. He may be confided in, therefore, by the righteous as their friend, and being under his protection they have nothing to fear. HIS COUNTENANCE DOTH BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT - The word rendered “countenance” is, in the Hebrew, in the plural number; literally,” his faces.” It is not easy to account for this use of the plural, though it is common in the Scriptures. There may be an allusion to the fact that man seems to have two faces - one on the right side, and one on the left, two eyes, two cheeks, two nostrils, etc., as if made up of two persons. Applied to God, it has no other signification than it has when applied to man; nor should we seek to find anything mysti...

EXPOSITION ASCRIBED to David in the "title," this psalm is almost universally allowed to be his. It "has all the characteristics of the earlier Davidic psalms." No allusion enables us to assign it to any particular occasion; but, on the whole, it would seem to belong most probably to the period of David's residence at the court of Saul, when he had provoked the jealousy of the courtiers, and calumnious accusations were being continually brought against him. At such a time his friends and companions may well have lost heart, and advised him to "flee away to the mountains." But David flees to God (Psalms 11:1), and trusts in him for deliverance from his persecutors (Psalms 11:4). Psalms 1

FOR THE RIGHTEOUS LORD LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... The Lord is righteous in himself, and in all his ways and works; and therefore righteousness, as it lies both in punishing the wicked, and in maintaining the righteous cause of his people, must be loved by him, it being agreeable to his nature: he loves to exercise righteousness in the earth, to administer it to and among men; this he delights in. He is well pleased with the righteousness of his Son, it being satisfactory to his justice, and that by which his law is magnified and made honourable; and he is well pleased with his people, as they are clothed with it: and he approves of their righteous actions, as they are done in obedience to his righteous law, in faith, from a principle of love, and with a view to his glory; these are acceptable to him in Christ; HIS COUNTENANCE DOTH BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT; whom wicked men privily shoot at,...

Psalms 11 __ 1. Faith's resources in the day of trouble (Psalms 11:1) 2. The recompense for the righteous and the wicked (Psalms 11:5) Psalms 11:1. Their refuge is the Lord, in Him they trust as we, His heavenly people, know Him as our hiding place in the time of trouble. That coming day of trouble is the time “when the foundations are destroyed.” It is the time of apostasy and confusion. But their comfort is “Jehovah is in His holy temple, the Throne of Jehovah is in heaven.” Psalms 11:5. But faith also reckons with the day of retributio

XI. YAHWEH THE SURE REFUGE. Psalms 11:1. The problem stated. The wicked are bold: the righteous cannot meet their attack. They can but flee like a little bird (the habitual meaning of the word translated bird). The mountain (LXX) is preferable to your mountain. An eagle might be poetically described as lord of the mountain, not so a little bird, which seeks refuge there. The reason for this despair is that while the very foundations of social order have been shaken, the righteous have made no head against prevailing evil. After all what hath the righteous done or effected? (_mg.)._ The answer (Psalms 11:4), Yahweh is in His heavenly Temple. But far from dwelling apart, He proves or tests the righteous. He rains burning wood on the wicked (so emend the senseless word snares in...

HIS COUNTENANCE DOTH BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT. An upright one shall gaze upon His face. One of the emendations of the _Sopherim._ See App-33, and note on Exodus 34:20....

For Jehovah is righteous; he loveth righteous deeds; The upright shall behold his face. The character of Jehovah is the ground of the judgement which has been described; and the reward of the upright is contrasted with the punishment of the wicked. _Righteous deeds_may denote the manifestations of Jehovah's righteousness (Judges 5:11; 1 Samuel 12:7), as well as the righteous acts of men. (Isaiah 33:15); but the context points to the latter meaning here. The A.V. rendering of the second line gives a good sense: He beholds the upright with favour. The P.B.V. follows the ancient versions in its rendering, -will behold _the thing that is just_." But usage and parallel passages are decisive in favour o