Psalm 59:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

The god

Genesis 33:20

Exodus 3:15

Visit

Exodus 20:5

The heathen

Be not

James 2:13

Bible References

The god

And he erected an altar there, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

And God said moreover to Moses, Thus shall thou say to the sons of Israel, LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my memor

Visit

Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,

The heathen

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul. They have not set God before them. Selah.

Hear the word of LORD, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Are ye not as the sons of the Ethiopians to me, O sons of Israel? says LORD. Have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

For he is not a Jew in what is visible, nor is circumcision in what is visible, in flesh,

But it is not as that the word of God has failed. For all those from Israel, these are not Israel,

Be not

If a man does not repent, he will whet his sword. He has bent his bow, and made it ready.

Let death come suddenly upon them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he who formed them

Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.