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David says, "I hate them" (that is, "I hate the work of them that turn aside," as he explains himself, #Ps 101:3) David, who is a sinner himself, compares his life to God’s Word and repents and asks for forgiveness. But those who rise up against God, who hate God, are the enemies of God and will not consider God’s Word or repent, are the wicked that will face God and be judge for what they have done and pay for their own sins by spending eternity separate from God, which God calls eternal death or hell.
Psalms 139:21-24 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you? 22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (NIV)
Calvin’s commentaries – Psalms 139:21. Shall I not hold in hatred those that hate thee? He proceeds to mention how greatly he had profited by the meditation upon God into which he had been led, for, as the effect, of his having realized his presence before God’s bar, and reflected upon the impossibility of escaping the eye of him who searches all deep places, he now lays down his resolution to lead a holy and pious life. In declaring his hatred of those who despised God, he virtually asserts thereby his own integrity, not as being free from all sin, but as being devoted to godliness, so that he detested in his heart everything which was contrary to it.
Full Matthew Henry Commentary - He detests them (#Ps 139:21,22): "Lord, thou knowest the heart, and canst witness for me; do not I hate those that hate thee, and for that reason, because they hate thee? I hate them because I love thee, and hate to see such affronts and indignities put upon thy blessed name. Am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee, grieved to see their rebellion and to foresee their ruin, which it will certainly end in?"
Note, Sin is hated, and sinners are lamented, by all that fear God.
"I hate them" (that is, "I hate the work of them that turn aside," as he explains himself, #Ps 101:3) "with a sincere and perfect hatred; I count those that are enemies to God as enemies to me, and will not have any intimacy with them,"
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