Psalm 5:4
Modern Translations
New International Version
For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness; with you, evil people are not welcome.

New Living Translation
O God, you take no pleasure in wickedness; you cannot tolerate the sins of the wicked.

English Standard Version
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.

Berean Study Bible
For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.

New American Standard Bible
For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; No evil can dwell with You.

NASB 1995
For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; No evil dwells with You.

NASB 1977
For Thou art not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; No evil dwells with Thee.

Amplified Bible
For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; No evil [person] dwells with You.

Christian Standard Bible
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil cannot dwell with you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil cannot dwell with You.

Contemporary English Version
You are not the kind of God who is pleased with evil. Sinners can't stay with you.

Good News Translation
You are not a God who is pleased with wrongdoing; you allow no evil in your presence.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness. Evil will never be your guest.

International Standard Version
Indeed, you aren't a God who delights in wickedness; evil will never dwell with you.

NET Bible
Certainly you are not a God who approves of evil; evil people cannot dwell with you.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

New King James Version
For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, Nor shall evil dwell with You.

King James 2000 Bible
For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.

New Heart English Bible
For you are not a God who desires wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

World English Bible
For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

American King James Version
For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.

American Standard Version
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.

A Faithful Version
For You are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness; nor shall evil dwell with You.

Darby Bible Translation
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with thee.

English Revised Version
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: evil shall not sojourn with thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For thou art not a God that loueth wickednes: neither shall euill dwell with thee.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For thou art the Lorde that hath no pleasure in wickednesse: neither can any euyll dwell with thee.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For thou art not the God yt hath pleasure in wickednesse, there maye no vngodly personne dwel with the.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For You [are] not a God desiring wickedness, "" Evil does not inhabit You.

Young's Literal Translation
For not a God desiring wickedness art Thou, Evil inhabiteth Thee not.

Smith's Literal Translation
For thou not a God delighting in injustice: and evil shall not dwell with thee.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the morning I will stand before thee, and will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.

Catholic Public Domain Version
In the morning, I will stand before you, and I will see. For you are not a God who wills iniquity.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because you are God, and desire no evil, and no evil one will dwell with you.

Lamsa Bible
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; neither shall evil dwell with thee.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For Thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; Evil shall not sojourn with Thee.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For thou art not a god that desires iniquity; neither shall the worker of wickedness dwell with thee.
















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