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 made there an altar, and there called upon the mighty God of Israel.

And God spake further unto Moses, "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 'the LORD 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 for ever, and this is my memorial throughout all generations.

Visit

See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

The heathen

The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.

For strangers are risen up against me; and tyrants, which have not God before their eyes, seek after my soul. Selah.

Hear the word of the LORD, ye tyrants of Sodom, and hearken unto the law of our God, thou people of Gomorrah.

O ye children of Israel, are ye not unto me, even as the Ethiopian?" sayeth the LORD, "Have not I brought Israel out of the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphthor, and the Syrians from Kir?

For he is not a Jew, which is a Jew outward. Neither is that thing circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

I speak not these things as though the words of God had taken none effect. For they are not all Israelites which came of Israel;

Be not

If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready.

Let death come hastily upon them, and let them go down quick into hell; for wickedness is among them in their dwellings.

Their harvest shall be burnt; their wives, which were their beauty when they came forth, shall be defiled. For it is a people without understanding, and therefore he that created them, shall not favour them; and he that made them, shall not be merciful to them.

And when a wicked turneth from his wickedness and doth justly and righteously, he shall save his soul:

For there shall be judgment, merciless, to him that showeth no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.