Psalm 145:20 {144:20}
Good News Translation
He protects everyone who loves him, but he will destroy the wicked.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

Contemporary English Version
You take care of everyone who loves you, but you destroy the wicked.

New American Bible
The LORD watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he destroys.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.

preserveth

Psalm 31:23 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.

Psalm 37:28 For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 97:10 You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.

Exodus 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments.

John 10:27-29 My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow me. . . .

Romans 8:28-30 And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. . . .

James 2:5 Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

1 Peter 1:5-8 Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. . . .

all the wicked

Psalm 1:6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

Matthew 25:41 Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels.

Context
I Will Exalt You, My God and King
19He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and save them. 20The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.21My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name forever; yea, for ever and ever.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 5:6
And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he destroyed them, and afflicted Azotus and the coasts thereof with emerods. And in the villages and fields in the midst of that country, there came forth a multitude of mice, and there was the confusion of a great mortality in the city.

1 Kings 3:3
And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David, his father; only he sacrificed in the high places, and burnt incense.

Psalm 9:5
Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

Psalm 31:23
O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.

Psalm 37:38
But the unjust shall be destroyed together: the remnants of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 91:14
Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him because he hath known my name.

Psalm 97:10
You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.

Psalm 145:19
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