“Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.”
The psalmist asserts that evil will slay the wicked and those who hate the righteous will be condemned. The verb "slay" suggests that evil itself becomes the instrument of the wicked's destruction, a principle of moral retribution. The affirmation that those who hate the righteous ''will be condemned'' suggests that hostility toward the righteous will not go unpunished. The verse establishes that wickedness carries within it seeds of self-destruction.
Church Fathers on Psalms 34:21
A psalm of David, when he changed his countenance before Abimelech, and he sent him away, and he departed. 1. Because there was there a sacrifice after the order of Aaron, and afterwards He of His Own Body and Blood appointed a sacrifice after the order of Melchizedek; He changed then His Countenance in the Priesthood, and sent away the kingdom of the Jews, and came to the Gentiles. What then is, “He affected”? He was full of affection. For what is so full of affection as…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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