Psalms 125:3
For the sceptre of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous, so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
4Do good, LORD, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:10Behold, today your eyes have seen how the LORD had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD’s anointed.’
Psalms 89:22No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.
Psalms 103:14For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
Isaiah 10:5Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
Isaiah 27:8In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
Revelation 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 125:2-4
The Security of God's People. 1 They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. 3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity. Here are three very precious promises made to the people of God, which, though they are designed to secure the welfare of the church in… Read the whole commentary →