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Psalms 34:11-22

The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 34:11-22

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The second, didactic, part of the psalm here begins. The writer assumes the role of the teacher, and, addressing his readers as "sons," undertakes to "teach them the fear of the Lord" (), or, in other words, to point out to them in what true religion consists.

This he does in two remarkable verses (, ); after which he proceeds, in the remainder of the psalm, to give reasons which may incline them to the practice of it ().

The reasons resolve themselves into two main grounds—the tender love and care of God for the righteous (, , ), and his hostility to and punish-meat of the wicked (, ).

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