I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
He does not occupy a neutral position. His hatred of wickedness is as whole-hearted as his love of goodness, and he makes it a personal matter: if men war against God and His laws, David proclaims war against them. Wickedness excludes a man from the communion of the just; we man the walls when such a one passes by.
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David refuses the hiding places where men cloak themselves in lies. He fixes on a truth that strips all pretense bare: nothing escapes God's sight, not because He watches from afar, but because He shaped us bone by bone in darkness and cannot be ignorant of what He has made.
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Commenting on Psalm 139:1-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart,.... He had searched him, and knew his heart thoroughly; try me, and know my thoughts; he had tried him, and knew every thought in him, Psa 139:1. This therefore is not said for the sake of God; who, though he is the trier of hearts, and the searcher of the reins, is indeed a discerner of the...