“You who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 97 contains 12 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.