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 there an altar, and called it El-elohe-israel.

And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

Visit

Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,

The heathen

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot 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 Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I 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 who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:

Be not

If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath 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 thereof 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 that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.