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Psalms 139:22

²⁰ who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.

²¹ Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?

I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.

²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
KJV: I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
WEB: I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
ASV: I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies.
DARBY: I hate them with perfect hatred; I account them mine enemies.
BLB: I have hated them with perfect hatred; they have become as enemies to me!

ÅB: Jeg hater dem med et fullkomment hat; de er mine fiender.
OTB: Jeg hater dem med fullkommen hat;
De har blitt mine fiender.
B1930: Jeg hater dem med et fullkomment hat; de er mine fiender.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
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Psalms 101:3–8
I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
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