Psalms 139 · Verse 22

Psalms 139:22

I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Psalms 139:22, King James Version

Psalms 139:22 in other translations

BSBI hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
WEBI hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
ASVI hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies.
YLTWith perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.
DARBYI hate them with perfect hatred; I account them mine enemies.
BBEMy hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
WebsterI hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.

What does Psalms 139:22 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 With perfect hatred - Their conduct, their motives, their opposition to thee, their perfidy and idolatrous purposes, I perfectly abhor. With them I have neither part, interest, nor affection.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 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…

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Psalms 139:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

תַּכְלִ֣יתtakh.Litcompleteness ofH8503
שִׂנְאָ֣הsin.'AhhatredH8135
שְׂנֵאתִ֑יםse.ne.TimI hate themH8130
לְ֝אוֹיְבִ֗יםle.'oy.Vim<into> enemiesH341
הָ֣יוּHa.yuthey have becomeH1961
לִֽי\׃Liof me

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 139:22

  • Luke 14:26

    If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

  • Psalms 101:3-8

    I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
hate them.
101:3-8; Lu 14:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 139:21

    Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

  • Psalms 139:22

    I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

  • Psalms 139:23

    Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

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Psalms 139:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Aborrézcolos con perfecto odio; téngolos por enemigos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Je les hais d’une parfaite haine; ils sont pour moi des ennemis.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Mit vollkommenem Hasse hasse ich sie; sie sind Feinde für mich.