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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 11:7

His countenance. — Better, the upright shall behold His countenance. This beautiful religious hope finds its highest expression in the beatitude on the pure in heart. The beatific vision in Dante is its most glorious poetical development. By the vision of God the Hebrew poet means triumph of right and the acknowledgment of his innocence — light and peace after darkness and trouble, as in Job 33:26. (Comp. Psalms 17:15; Psalms 41:12.)

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See also Psalms 11:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 11:7. _THE RIGHTEOUS LORD LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS_] He loves that which resembles himself. _His countenance _- his face - is ever open and unclouded to the upright. They always enjoy his sal...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE RIGHTEOUS LORD LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS - This would be more correctly rendered, “For Jehovah is righteous; he loves righteousness.” The idea is, that God is himself righteous, and, consequently,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 11 __ 1. Faith's resources in the day of trouble (Psalms 11:1) 2. The recompense for the righteous and the wicked (Psalms 11:5) Psal

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XI. YAHWEH THE SURE REFUGE. Psalms 11:1. The problem stated. The wicked are bold: the righteous cannot meet their attack. They can but flee like a little bird (the habitual meaning of the word transla...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HIS COUNTENANCE DOTH BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT. An upright one shall gaze upon His face. One of the emendations of the _Sopherim._ See App-33, and note on Exodus 34:20....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    For Jehovah is righteous; he loveth righteous deeds; The upright shall behold his face. The character of Jehovah is the ground of the judgement which has been described; and the reward of the uprigh...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HIS COUNTENANCE DOTH BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT— _His countenance beholds equity; i.e._ with approbation and favour. Houb. REFLECTIONS.—Temptation and prayer brighten the true believer's soul; none, perhaps,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 11 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Faith's Brave Answer to the Counsels of Fear. ANALYSIS Stanza, Psalms 11:1-3, Counsels of Despair, with an Expression of Surprise Refused. Antistanza, Psalms 11:4-6,Conf...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FOR THE RIGHTEOUS LORD LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS; HIS COUNTENANCE DOTH BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT._ FOR THE RIGHTEOUS LORD LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS - (God by His very nature cannot do otherwise than favour the saints...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    11:7 righteousness, (c-7) Lit. 'righteousnesses.' see Note, Revelation 19:8 . upright. (d-13) Or 'the upright shall see his face.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    of the Messianic hope in Psalms 2, 20, 28,, 40. The following Pss. are either quoted from or distinctly referred to in NT.: 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24, 32, 34, 40, 41. In several instances the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'The Lord is righteous: he loveth righteousness.' God's dealings with men reflect His own character. HIS COUNTENANCE, etc.] RV 'the upright shall behold His face,' shall be admitted to His favour,...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־צַדִּ֣יק יְ֭הוָה צְדָקֹ֣ות אָהֵ֑ב יָ֝שָׁ֗ר...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 11:1 The correctness of the superscription is, in the present case, defended by Ewald and Hitzig. Delitzsch refers the psalm to the eve of Absalom's conspiracy, while other supporters of the Da...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD OUR REFUGE AND DEFENSE Psalms 11:1; Psalms 12:1 The first of these is a debate between fear and faith, and dates from Saul's persecutions. Timid friends, anxious for David's safety, urged him to...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This psalm is the answer of faith to the advice of fear. Both are alike conscious of immediate peril. Fear sees only the things that are near. Faith takes in the larger distances. If the things fear s...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Pure words, very different from those of the deceitful, ver. 3. (Calmet) --- Earth, dross, or in the crucible, or "for the ruler of earth:" (Pagnin; Haydock) current money. If we alter the Hebrew a l...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Very awful must be the termination of a life of sin, to whatever age protracted, or however lengthened. Tell ye the righteous it shall be well with him. Woe unto the wicked! it shalt be ill with him....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS How blessed it is, to have a God in Christ to flee unto, and to put our sure trust in, when storms invade the church, or when the enemy comes forward with a high hand. Though a lost encamp...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._For the righteous Jehovah loveth righteousness. _The Psalmist has just now reasoned from the office of God that he will punish the wicked, and now, from the nature of God, he concludes, that he wil...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    What the righteous remnant are to do when the power of evil is thus dominant in Emmanuel's land, Psalms 11 treats of. Psalms 11-15, as I have already remarked, give the thoughts and feelings of the re...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE RIGHTEOUS LORD LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... The Lord is righteous in himself, and in all his ways and works; and therefore righteousness, as it lies both in punishing the wicked, and in maintaini...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright. Ver. 7. _For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness_] _sc._ As a reflection of himself, as a piece of his own im...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness_ This is mentioned as the reason why God punishes the wicked so dreadfully. It is because, being righteous, essentially righteous, himself, he cannot but _...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness, such acts of righteousness as His children on earth delight in; HIS COUNTENANCE DOTH BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT, they alone behold His face, they alone are worthy...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    DAVID'S REFUSAL TO FLEE WHEN IN DANGER OF LIFE. There was a time when David's throne was in danger, when Absalom was scheming to usurp the royal power in Israel, when David's very life was no longer s...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This is given as the reason why God hateth and punisheth wicked men so dreadfully, because he loves righteousness, and therefore must needs hate wickedness and punish wicked men. Or, _but_, as this pa...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 11:7 LORD H3068 righteous H6662 loves H157 (H8804) righteousness H6666 countenance H6440 beholds H2372 (H8799) u

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH tries the righteous, But the unrighteous and him who loves violence his soul hates. On the unrighteous he will rain snares, Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The doom of the wicked. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: If we get the vision of God on His throne, governing all creatures, rendering to all according to their works, we shall then see...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 11:1. _Flee as a bird to your mountain,_ the hill country of Judea. When hiding from Saul, and when the wicked bent their bow against him, it was prudent to shun the snares. Psalms 11:3. _If th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The righteous Lord loveth righteousness._ THE RIGHTEOUS GOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS “Righteousness may be taken as but another word for rightness, equity, justice, the being and rendering what is right. H...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _In the Lord put I my trust._ JEHOVAH THE PROTECTOR AND AVENGER OF THE PERSECUTED SAINT The Psalmist, beset by malicious foes, is warned by some of his adherents to seek refuge in flight. The Psalm i...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 11:1. This psalm describes the confidence that the faithful may have, even in times of severe crisis. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “The friends of David advise him in this psalm to flee unto the mountainous parts of the land of Judah, in order to avoid the danger which was threatening him, should he remain in the pla...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ASCRIBED to David in the "title," this psalm is almost universally allowed to be his. It "has all the characteristics of the earlier Davidic psalms." No allusion enables us to assign it to...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Psa 11:1-7 is to the chief musician. It is a psalm of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how do you say to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? (Psalms 11:1) My trust is in the Lord. Why should...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 3:12; Isaiah 61:8; Job 36:7; Psalms 146:8; Psalms 21:6;...

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