I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things I have given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you.
Psalm 5:4 - New International Version (Anglicised) For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness; with you, evil people are not welcome. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Neither shall evil dwell with thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee. Common English Bible Because you aren’t a God who enjoys wickedness; evil doesn’t live with you. Catholic Public Domain Version For to you, I will pray. In the morning, Lord, you will hear my voice. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice. |
I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things I have given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you.
No-one who practises deceit will dwell in my house; no-one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.
The Lord examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion.
Surely the righteous will praise your name, and the upright will live in your presence.
When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was exactly like you. But I now arraign you and set my accusations before you.
I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.
proclaiming, ‘The Lord is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.’
Can a corrupt throne be allied with you – a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?
Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
You have wearied the Lord with your words. ‘How have we wearied him?’ you ask. By saying, ‘All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
Jesus replied, ‘Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no-one will see the Lord.
But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.