Psalm 139:21 {138:21}
Good News Translation
O LORD, how I hate those who hate you! How I despise those who rebel against you!

New Revised Standard Version
Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

Contemporary English Version
You know I hate anyone who hates you, LORD, and refuses to obey.

New American Bible
Do I not hate, LORD, those who hate you? Those who rise against you, do I not loathe?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?

do not I

Psalm 15:4 In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: but he glorifieth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his neighbour, and deceiveth not;

Psalm 31:6 Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:

2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him: Thou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the Lord:

Revelation 2:2,6 I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou canst not bear them that are evil. And thou hast tried them who say they are apostles and are not: and hast found them liars: . . .

and am not

Psalm 119:136,158 My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law. . . .

Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.

Mark 3:5 And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored unto him.

Luke 19:41 And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:

Romans 9:1-3 I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost: . . .

Context
You Have Searched Me and Known Me
20Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain. 21Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?22I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 19:2
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him: Thou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the Lord:

Psalm 26:5
I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I will not sit.

Psalm 31:6
Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:

Psalm 119:158
I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept not thy word.

Psalm 139:22
I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.

Proverbs 29:27
The just abhor a wicked man: and the wicked loathe them that are in the right way. The son that keepeth the word, shall be free from destruction.

Psalm 139:20
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