Teks -- Psalms 34:21 (NET)

34:21 Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished.

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JFB: Psa 34:21-22

Contrast in the destiny of righteous and wicked; the former shall be delivered and never come into condemnation (Joh 5:24; Rom 8:1); the latter are left under condemnation and desolate.

Clarke: Psa 34:21 - Evil shall slay the wicked

Evil shall slay the wicked - The very thing in which they delight shall become their bane and their ruin

Clarke: Psa 34:21 - They that hate the righteous

They that hate the righteous - All persecutors of God’ s people shall be followed by the chilling blast of God’ s displeasure in this world; and if they repent not, shall perish everlastingly.

Calvin: Psa 34:21 - But malice shall slay the wicked

21.But malice shall slay the wicked The Hebrew word רעה , raäh, which I have translated malice, some would rather render misery, so that the meaning would be, that the ungodly shall perish miserably, because in the end they shall be overwhelmed with calamities. The other translation, however, is more expressive, namely, that their wickedness, with which they think themselves fortified, shall fall upon their own heads. As David therefore taught before, that there was no defense better than a just and blameless life, so now he declares, that all the wicked enterprises of the wicked, even though no one should in any thing oppose them, shall turn to their own destruction. In the second clause of the verse he states, that it is for the sake of the righteous that it is ordered, that the ungodly are themselves the cause and instruments of their own destruction. Those, says he, who hate the righteous shall be destroyed Let this, therefore, be to us as a wall of brass and sure defense; that however numerous the enemies which beset us may be, we should not be afraid, because they are already devoted to destruction. The same thing David confirms in the last verse, in which he says, that Jehovah redeems the soul of his servants How could they be preserved in safety, even for a moment, among so many dangers, unless God interposed his power for their defense? But by the word redeem there is expressed a kind of preservation which is repugnant to the flesh. For it is necessary that we should first be adjudged or doomed to death, before God should appear as our redeemer. From this it follows, that those who hurry forward too precipitately, and are unable to realize God’s power unless he appear speedily, working deliverance for them, intercept the communication of his grace. Moreover, that none might form their judgment of the servants of God by moral or philosophic virtue only, as it is called, David specifies this as a principal mark by which they may be known, that they trust in God, on whom also their salvation depends.

TSK: Psa 34:21 - Evil // they // desolate

Evil : Psa 37:30-40, Psa 94:23; Isa 3:11

they : Psa 37:12-15, Psa 40:15, Psa 89:23; 1Sa 19:4, 1Sa 19:5, 1Sa 31:4; 1Ki 22:8, 1Ki 22:37; Luk 19:14, Luk 19:27; Luk 19:41-44; Joh 7:7, Joh 15:18-23; 1Th 2:15, 1Th 2:16; 2Th 1:6, 2Th 1:9

desolate : or, guilty, Exo 20:7

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Poole: Psa 34:21 - Evil // That hate the righteous

Evil either,

1. The evil of sin. His own wickedness, though designed against others, shall destroy himself. Or,

2. The evil of misery. When the afflictions of good men shall have a happy issue, theirs shall end in their total and final destruction.

That hate the righteous that persecute them, and plot their ruin; which is an evidence that they hate them, whatsoever they may pretend to the contrary.

Haydock: Psa 34:21 - Done, euge // Seen

Done, euge. Hebrew heach. (Haydock) ---

This term occurs ten times in Scripture, and here denotes the joy felt in the destruction of an enemy. Thus the Jews insulted over Christ expiring on the cross. (Berthier) ---

Seen. No farther reserve is necessary: he is fallen, or we have accused him of nothing but what we have seen. (Calmet)

Gill: Psa 34:21 - Evil shall slay the wicked // and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate

Evil shall slay the wicked,.... Meaning either the evil they designed against the righteous shall return and fall upon their heads, to their own ruin; or the evil of affliction, which to them is the evil of punishment, both here and hereafter, from which they will have no deliverance in the end; though the righteous have from their afflictions, being not properly punishments, but chastisements for sin, and are but for a time; or else the evil of sin, which is the cause of death corporeal and eternal;

and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate; or "shall be guilty" ⁿ; be found so; or "shall be condemned", or "damned", as the Targum renders it. All wicked men hate the righteous, both Jesus Christ the righteous, and his people; and that because they are righteous, and do not run into the same excess of wickedness with them, these will be arraigned at the day of judgment, and will be convicted of all their hard speeches which they have spoken against Christ and his members; and will be pronounced guilty, and will be punished with everlasting destruction.