Psalms 125:5

"Do good, LORD, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts."

Key Reflection

This verse underscores God's commitment to rewarding righteous behavior. It reflects the idea that those who seek to do what is right and maintain integrity within will experience divine favor and blessings, reinforcing the notion of moral recompense in the spiritual realm.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways -The wicked. Those who leave the right or straight path, and wander in forbidden ways. The word here rendered “crooked ways” occurs nowhere else except inJudges 5:6, where it is rendered “by-ways,” meaning unfrequented paths or roads; narrow and crooked paths, remote from the highways, or the ways commonly traversed. Hence, the word means also paths of sin - as deviations from the straight road which man should travel. The Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity -They shall be dealt with as sinners. They shall be punished.

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