You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
KJV
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Commentary
Commentary
Thou lovest evil more than good,.... Indeed not good at all; such comparatives being strong negatives; see
Psa 118:8
; a wicked man loves evil, and nothing else; his carnal mind being enmity to all that is good
and lying rather than to speak righteousness; as appears by his affirming that Ahimelech inquired of the Lord for David, when he did not,
Sa1 22:10
; and by suffering some things to pass for truths which were falsehoods, when it lay in his power to have disproved them: and such a lover of lies is antichrist; see
Ti1 4:2
.
Selah; on this word; see Gill on
Psa 3:2
. The Targum renders the word "Selah" here "for ever", as in
Psa 52:5
.
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