Psalm 5:4 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴ For You are not an Ěl taking delight in wrong, Nor does evil dwell with You.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Neither shall evil dwell with thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ For You are not a God Who takes pleasure in wickedness; neither will the evil [man] so much as dwell [temporarily] with You.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.

Common English Bible

⁴ Because you aren’t a God who enjoys wickedness; evil doesn’t live with you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ For to you, I will pray. In the morning, Lord, you will hear my voice.

Psalm 5:4 Cross References

Psalm 11:5

יהוה tries the righteous, But His being shall hate the wrong And the one who loves violence.

Hebrews 12:14

Pursue peace with all, and pursue apartness without which no one shall see the Master.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied יהוה with your words, and you have said, “In what way have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of יהוה, and He is delighting in them,” or, “Where is the Elohim of right-ruling?”

Psalm 140:13

Only, let the righteous give thanks to Your Name, Let the straight ones dwell in Your presence.

Psalm 50:21

“You have done this, and I kept silent; You have thought that I was altogether like you – I rebuke you, and set it in order before your eyes.

Revelation 21:27

And there shall by no means enter into it whatever is unclean, neither anyone doing abomination and falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Habakkuk 1:13

You, whose eyes are too clean to see evil, You are not able to look on wrong. Why do You look on those who act treacherously – keep silent when the wrong devours one more righteous than he?

Psalm 92:15

To declare that יהוה is straight, My rock, and in Him is no unrighteousness.

2 Peter 3:13

But according to His promise we wait for a renewed heavens and a renewed earth in which righteousness dwells.

Psalm 101:7

He who practises deceit Does not dwell in my house; He who speaks lies Does not stand in my presence.

Psalm 94:20

Would a throne of destruction, Which devises trouble by law, Be joined with You?

Revelation 21:23

And the city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it, for the esteem of Elohim lightened it, and the Lamb is its lamp.

John 14:23

יהושע answered him, “If anyone loves Me, he shall guard My Word. And My Father shall love him, and We shall come to him and make Our stay with him.

1 Chronicles 29:17

“And I know, my Elohim, that You are trying the heart and desire uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have voluntarily given all these. And now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here to give voluntarily to You.

Psalm 63:2

Therefore I have had a vision of You In the set-apart place, To see Your power and Your esteem.

Psalm 88:14

יהוה, why do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?