What is the meaning of Psalm 7:14? Behold • This opening word is God’s way of grabbing our attention, urging us to look carefully at what follows (Isaiah 26:21; Psalm 66:5). • It signals a moral lesson: we are about to see how sin operates and why judgment is just (Psalm 37:35–36). The wicked man travails with evil • “Travails” pictures a mother in labor—painful, prolonged, inevitable. The wicked carry evil inside them until it must come out (Job 15:35; Isaiah 59:4). • Evil is not a passing thought; it dominates the heart (Genesis 6:5; Matthew 15:19). • Like a pregnancy, sin grows even when hidden; its eventual appearance is certain (Galatians 6:7–8). He conceives trouble • The mind is the womb where wrongdoing is formed (Proverbs 6:14; Micah 2:1). • “Trouble” here includes schemes that harm others—plots, injustices, violence (Psalm 10:7–11). • This internal process shows why repentance must reach the heart, not merely outward behavior (Psalm 51:6, 10). And births falsehood • What began as evil thinking emerges as lies and deception (John 8:44; Psalm 5:6). • Falsehood destroys trust, relationships, even nations (Proverbs 14:34; Revelation 21:8). • The sequence—evil intention, troubling plan, deceptive outcome—reveals sin’s predictable cycle (James 1:15). summary Psalm 7:14 paints sin as a spiritual pregnancy: wicked people carry evil thoughts, labor over harmful schemes, and finally deliver lies. God exposes this process so we will recognize sin early, flee from it, and trust His righteous judgment (Psalm 7:9; 1 John 1:9). |
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