Psalms 5:4
For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
In Context
5The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate all workers of iniquity.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:17I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto you.
Psalms 50:21These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such an one as yourself: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before yours eyes.
Psalms 88:14LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?
Psalms 94:20Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?
Psalms 140:13Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto your name: the upright shall dwell in your presence.
Malachi 2:17All of you have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet all of you say, Wherein have we wearied him? When all of you say, Every one that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 5:2-7
Prayer for Guidance and Protection. 1 Give ear to my words, O Lord , consider my meditation. 2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. 3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord ; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. 4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. 5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing:… Read the whole commentary →