Psalm 139:19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!

English Standard Version
Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!

New American Standard Bible
O that You would slay the wicked, O God; Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.

King James Bible
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
God, if only You would kill the wicked-- you bloodthirsty men, stay away from me--

International Standard Version
God, if only you would execute the wicked, so that the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me,

American Standard Version
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:

Darby Bible Translation
Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O +God! And ye men of blood, depart from me.

Young's Literal Translation
Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!

Cross References

Psalm 5:6
You shall destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

Psalm 6:8
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

Psalm 26:9
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

Psalm 59:2
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

Psalm 119:115
Depart from me, you evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

Isaiah 11:4
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

139:17-24 God's counsels concerning us and our welfare are deep, such as cannot be known. We cannot think how many mercies we have received from him. It would help to keep us in the fear of the Lord all the day long, if, when we wake in the morning, our first thoughts were of him: and how shall we admire and bless our God for his precious salvation, when we awake in the world of glory! Surely we ought not to use our members and senses, which are so curiously fashioned, as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin. But our immortal and rational souls are a still more noble work and gift of God. Yet if it were not for his precious thoughts of love to us, our reason and our living for ever would, through our sins, prove the occasion of our eternal misery. How should we then delight to meditate on God's love to sinners in Jesus Christ, the sum of which exceeds all reckoning! Sin is hated, and sinners lamented, by all who fear the Lord. Yet while we shun them we should pray for them; with God their conversion and salvation are possible. As the Lord knows us thoroughly, and we are strangers to ourselves, we should earnestly desire and pray to be searched and proved by his word and Spirit. if there be any wicked way in me, let me see it; and do thou root it out of me. The way of godliness is pleasing to God, and profitable to us; and will end in everlasting life. It is the good old way. All the saints desire to be kept and led in this way, that they may not miss it, turn out of it, or tire in it.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

PSALM 139

Ps 139:1-24. After presenting the sublime doctrines of God's omnipresence and omniscience, the Psalmist appeals to Him, avowing his innocence, his abhorrence of the wicked, and his ready submission to the closest scrutiny. Admonition to the wicked and comfort to the pious are alike implied inferences from these doctrines.