Psalms Chapter 1 verse 5 Holy Bible
Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
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For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,
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Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
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Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
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Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
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Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
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Therefore the wicked rise not in judgment, Nor sinners in the company of the righteous,
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Psalms 1 : 5 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Therefore the ungodly (or, the wicked) shall not stand in the judgment. "Therefore," as being chaff, i.e. "destitute of spiritual vitality" (Kay), "the wicked shall not stand," or shall not rise up, "in the judgment," i.e. in the judgment of the last day. So the Targum, Rashi, Dr. Kay, Canon Cook, and others. It is certainly not conceivable that any human judgment is intended by "the judgment" (הַמִּשְׁפָט), and though possibly "all manifestations of God's punitive righteousness are comprehended" (Hengstenberg), yet the main idea must be that the wicked shall not be able to "stand," or" rise up," i.e. "hold up their heads" (Aglen), in the last day. Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. Here the human judgment comes in. Sinners will be cast out, not only from heaven, but also from the Church, or "congregation of the righteous," if not before, at any rate when the "congregation" is finally made up.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Therefore.--Notice contrast with Psalm 1:1. Those who had deliberately chosen the assembly of the scornful will have no place in that of the good.Shall not stand.--Properly, shall not rise. Probably like our phrase, "shall not hold up his head." Will be self-convicted, and shrink away before God's unerring scrutiny, like the man without a wedding garment in our Lord's parable (Matthew 22:12). The LXX. and Vulg. have "rise again," as if with thought of an after state.The congregation of the righteous.--A phrase repeating itself in different forms in the Psalms. It implies either Israel as opposed to the heathen, or faithful Israel as opposed to those who had proved disloyal to the covenant. In theory all the congregation was holy (Numbers 16:3), but we meet in the Psalms with the feeling expressed in the Apostle's words, "They are not all Israel that are of Israel."
