Psalms 1:5
So the wicked will not stand firm in the judgment, nor sinners appear, when the righteous are gathered.
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In Context
4Not so fare the wicked, not so; like chaff are they, blown by the wind.
6For the way of the righteous is dear to the Lord, but the way of the wicked will end in ruin.
Cross References
Psalms 5:5No braggarts can stand in your presence, you hate all workers of wrong.
Psalms 9:16The Lord is revealed in the judgment he wrought, the wicked are snared in their own handiwork. Selah
Psalms 26:9Do not gather me up with sinners; slay me not with people of blood,
Matthew 13:49So will it be at the close of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous,
Matthew 25:41Then he will say to those on his left ‘Go from my presence, accursed, into the permanent fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.
Luke 21:36Be on the watch at all times, and pray that you may have strength to escape all that is destined to happen, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man.”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 1:5-6
Description and Doom of the Ungodly. 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Here is, I. The description of the ungodly given, v. 4 . 1. In general, they are the reverse of the righteous, both in character and condition: They are not so. The LXX. emphatically repeats this: Not so the… Read the whole commentary →