Psalms 139:21-22
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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Psalms 139:21-22. Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
We are to love our own enemies, but we are not to love God’s enemies, nor willingly to mix with them. How can Christian men associate with the lewd and irreverent without becoming partakers of their evil deeds? Let us take note of what David says, and realize that we cannot be the friends of God if we are the friends of God’s enemies. Now the psalmist comes back to his key-note. He began the Psalm with the declaration, "O Lord, thou hast searched me;" and now he prays, -