“For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.”
The final affirmation that God is righteous and loves righteousness and the upright shall behold His face concludes the psalm by establishing the ultimate triumph of righteousness. The mention of God's righteousness establishes divine justice as fundamental to God's nature, making judgment inevitable. The vision of the upright beholding God's face suggests intimacy and vindication, establishing that righteousness yields access to divine presence. This verse resolves the psalm's tension by affirming that trust proves justified and that the righteous ultimately experience divine favor.
Church Fathers on Psalms 11:7
To the end, a psalm of David himself. 1. This title does not require a fresh consideration: for the meaning of, “to the end,” has already been sufficiently handled. Let us then look to the text itself of the Psalm, which to me appears to be sung against the heretics, who, by rehearsing and exaggerating the sins of many in the Church, as if either all or the majority among themselves were righteous, strive to turn and snatch us away from the breasts of the one True Mother…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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