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align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">There were they in great fear: for God <i>is</i> in the generation of the righteous.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/psalms/14.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/psalms/14.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/psalms/14.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/psalms/14.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/psalms/14.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/psalms/14.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/psalms/14.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/14.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/psalms/14.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a 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Psalms 53 adds, “which was no fear.” The local “there” brings the scene before us as in a picture. We see them <span class= "ital">there </span>before us, these wicked men; <span class= "ital">there </span>in the midst of their intrigues, or their exactions, or their pleasures, the hand of God seizes them, and lo! they are struck with fear. We evidently have not here any indication by which to fasten on a particular event. Whether the addition in Psalms 53 gives any is discussed there.<p><span class= "bld">For God is.</span>—For the singular variation in Psalms 53 consult Note on <a href="/psalms/14-5.htm" title="There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.">Psalm 14:5</a> of that psalm. The uneasy sense that, after all, the good have God on their side—this general truth is implied in the phrase “generations of the righteous,” even if first employed of faithful Israel—is always a cause of fear to the wicked.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/psalms/14.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/psalms/14-5.htm" title="There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.">Psalm 14:5</a></span>. <span class="ital">There were they in great fear — </span>In the place, or upon the spot where they practised these insolences: or, <span class="ital">then, </span>that is, in the height of their tyranny and prosperous impiety, when they seemed to have no cause for it, God struck them with a panic fear. Hebrew, <span class="greekheb">פחדו פחד</span>, <span class="ital">pachadu pachad, they feared with fear, </span>that is, vehemently, namely, from their own guilty consciences and the just expectation of divine vengeance. Or, <span class="ital">they shall be greatly afraid, </span>the past tense being put for the future prophetically. Thus Bishop Patrick understands it, whose paraphrase on the words is, “What a terror will it be to them to see the divine vengeance seize on them when they think themselves most secure!” <span class="ital">For God is in the generation of the righteous — </span>He, who is the righteous Judge, will not desert those that are faithful to him, but will graciously deliver them. Or, God is for the generation, &c., as the Hebrew particle <span class="greekheb">ב</span>, here used, often signifies: that is, God is on their side, and therefore their enemies have great cause to tremble.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/psalms/14.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>14:1-7 A description of the depravity of human nature, and the deplorable corruption of a great part of mankind. - The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. The sinner here described is an atheist, one that saith there is no Judge or Governor of the world, no Providence ruling over the affairs of men. He says this in his heart. He cannot satisfy himself that there is none, but wishes there were none, and pleases himself that it is possible there may be none; he is willing to think there is none. This sinner is a fool; he is simple and unwise, and this is evidence of it: he is wicked and profane, and this is the cause. The word of God is a discerner of these thoughts. No man will say, There is no God, till he is so hardened in sin, that it is become his interest that there should be none to call him to an account. The disease of sin has infected the whole race of mankind. They are all gone aside, there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Whatever good is in any of the children of men, or is done by them, it is not of themselves, it is God's work in them. They are gone aside from the right way of their duty, the way that leads to happiness, and are turned into the paths of the destroyer. Let us lament the corruption of our nature, and see what need we have of the grace of God: let us not marvel that we are told we must be born again. And we must not rest in any thing short of union with Christ, and a new creation to holiness by his Spirit. The psalmist endeavours to convince sinners of the evil and danger of their way, while they think themselves very wise, and good, and safe. Their wickedness is described. Those that care not for God's people, for God's poor, care not for God himself. People run into all manner of wickedness, because they do not call upon God for his grace. What good can be expected from those that live without prayer? But those that will not fear God, may be made to fear at the shaking of a leaf. All our knowledge of the depravity of human nature should endear to us salvation out of Zion. But in heaven alone shall the whole company of the redeemed rejoice fully, and for evermore. The world is bad; oh that the Messiah would come and change its character! There is universal corruption; oh for the times of reformation! The triumphs of Zion's King will be the joys of Zion's children. The second coming of Christ, finally to do away the dominion of sin and Satan, will be the completing of this salvation, which is the hope, and will be the joy of every Israelite indeed. With this assurance we should comfort ourselves and one another, under the sins of sinners and sufferings of saints.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/psalms/14.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>There were they in great fear - Margin, as in Hebrew, "they feared a fear." The idea is, that they were in great terror or consternation. They were not calm in their belief that there was no God. They endeavored to be. They wished to satisfy themselves that there was no God, and that they had nothing to dread. But they could not do this. In spite of all their efforts, there was such proof of his existence, and of his being the friend of the righteous, and consequently the enemy of such as they themselves were, as to fill their minds with alarm. People cannot, by an effort of will, get rid of the evidence that there is a God. In the face of all their attempts to convince themselves of this, the demonstration of his existence will press upon them, and will often fill their minds with terror.<p>For God is in the generation of the righteous - The word "generation" here, as applied to the righteous, seems to refer to them as a "race," or as a "class" of people. Compare <a href="/psalms/24-6.htm">Psalm 24:6</a>; <a href="/psalms/73-15.htm">Psalm 73:15</a>; <a href="/psalms/112-2.htm">Psalm 112:2</a>. It commonly in the Scriptures refers to a certain age or duration, as it is used by us, reckoning an age or generation as about thirty or forty years (compare <a href="/job/42-16.htm">Job 42:16</a>); but in the use of the term before us the idea of an "age" is dropped, and the righteous are spoken of merely as a "class" or "race" of persons. The idea here is, that there were such manifest proofs that God was among the righteous, and that he was their friend, that the wicked could not resist the force of that evidence, however much they might desire it, and however much they might wish to arrive at the conclusion that there was no God. The evidence that he was among the righteous would, of course, alarm them, because the very fact that he was the friend of the righteous demonstrated that he must be the enemy of the wicked, and, of course, that they were exposed to his wrath. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/psalms/14.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>4-6. Their conduct evinces indifference rather than ignorance of God; for when He appears in judgment, they are stricken with great fear.<p>who eat up my people—to express their beastly fury (Pr 30:14; Hab 3:14). To "call on the Lord" is to worship Him.<a name="tod" id="tod"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/tod/psalms/14.htm">The Treasury of David</a></div>5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.<p>Oppressors have it not all their own way, they have their fits of trembling and their appointed seasons of overthrow. There - where they denied God and hectored against his people; there - where they thought of peace and safety, they were made to quail. "There were they" - these very loud-mouthed, iron-handed, proud-hearted Nimrods and Herods, these heady, high-minded sinners - "there were they in great fear." A panic terror seized them: "they feared a fear," as the Hebrew puts it; an undefinable, horrible, mysterious dread crept over them. The most hardened of men have their periods when conscience casts them into a cold sweat of alarm. As cowards are cruel, so all cruel men are at heart cowards. The ghost of past sin is a terrible spectre to haunt any man, and though unbelievers may boast as loudly as they will, a sound is in their ears which makes them ill at ease.<p>"For God is in the generation of the righteous." This makes the company of godly men so irksome to the wicked because they perceive that God is with them. Shut their eyes as they may, they cannot but perceive the image of God in the character of his truly gracious people, nor can they fail to see that he works for their deliverance. Like Haman, they instinctively feel a trembling when they see God's Mordecais. Even though the saint may be in a mean position, mourning at the gate where the persecutor rejoices in state, the sinner feels the influence of the believer's true nobility and quails before it, for God is there. Let scoffers beware, for they persecute the Lord Jesus when they molest his people; the union is very close between God and his people, it amounts to a mysterious indwelling, for God is in the generation of the righteous. <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/psalms/14.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">There, </span> i.e. in the place, or upon the spot, where they practised these insolences, God struck them with a panic fear. Or, <span class="ital">then</span>, i.e. in the height of their tyranny and prosperous impiety, when they seemed to have no cause for it. An adverb of place for an adverb of time, of which there want not examples in Scripture and other authors, as hath been noted before. Or, <span class="ital">thence</span>, as this particle is rendered, <span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/2-10.htm" title="And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became into four heads.">Genesis 2:10</a> 49:24 <a href="/isaiah/65-20.htm" title="There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.">Isaiah 65:20</a></span>; i.e. from that time; or for that cause, as some take it, and it may be taken, <span class="bld"><a href="/job/35-12.htm" title="There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.">Job 35:12</a> <a href="/psalms/36-12.htm" title="There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.">Psalm 36:12</a></span>, i.e. for this their contempt of God and manifest injury to men. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">In great fear, </span> from their own guilty consciences, and the just expectation of Divine vengeance. Heb. <span class="ital">they feared with fear</span>, i.e. vehemently, <span class="ital">where there was no</span> cause of <span class="ital">fear</span>, as is here implied, (for they are now supposed to be in a state of power and tyranny,) as is expressed in the parallel place, <span class="bld"><a href="/psalms/53-5.htm" title="There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you: you have put them to shame, because God has despised them.">Psalm 53:5</a></span>. Or, <span class="ital">they shall be greatly afraid</span>, the past tense being put for the future prophetically. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">For; </span> for they remembered what a potent adversary they had, and therefore had cause enough to fear. Or, <span class="ital">but</span>, as this particle is taken, <span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/45-8.htm" title="So now it was not you that sent me here, but God: and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.">Genesis 45:8</a> <a href="/psalms/37-20.htm" title="But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.">Psalm 37:20</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-10.htm" title="And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.">Ecclesiastes 2:10</a> 6:2</span>. So he describes the contrary and safe condition of the righteous. Or, <span class="ital">when</span>, as it oft signifies, and so it answers to the then in the beginning of the verse, when God shall once appear for his people, a dreadful horror shall seize upon their wicked enemies. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">In the generation of the righteous, </span> i.e. among them, with his gracious and powerful presence to defend them, and to fight against their enemies. Or, <span class="ital">God</span> is <span class="ital">for</span>, &c., as the Hebrew <span class="ital">beth</span> oft signifies, that is, God is on their side, and therefore their enemies have great cause to tremble. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/psalms/14.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>There were they in great fear,.... This, shows that they had some knowledge of God, and consciousness of guilt, which they endeavoured to banish out of their minds by their fears of punishment; and these fears men of the most atheistic principles cannot get rid of. In <a href="/psalms/53-5.htm">Psalm 53:5</a> it is added, "where no fear was": that is, any cause or reason for it: such men are often frightened at their own shadows, afraid to be in the dark alone, as Hobbes the atheist was. The wicked flee when no man pursues, and are chased by the sound of a shaken leaf; see <a href="/proverbs/28-1.htm">Proverbs 28:1</a>; or where there was no fear of God before their eyes, nor on their hearts, as well as no regard to men; or where before there were perfect peace and security, and no apprehension or dread of any calamity, ruin, and destruction; <p>for God is in the generation of the righteous, or "of the righteous One" (b); which some understood of Jesus Christ the righteous: and though the age or generation in which he lived was a very wicked one, yet God was with him; as was seen by the doctrines he taught, and the miracles he wrought; and which filled the Jews with panic fears, lest the Romans should come and take away their place and nation: but rather this is to be understood of the generation of the saints, who are righteous through the righteousness of Christ, and have the new man in them, which is created in righteousness and true holiness, and live soberly and righteously; these are sometimes called the generation of the upright, and of the children of God, and of them that seek him, <a href="/psalms/112-2.htm">Psalm 112:2</a>; in the midst of these God is, among them he affords his gracious presence, and is with them, for their help and assistance against their enemies: and as this makes them fearless of them, it fills their enemies with dread and terror; see <a href="/joshua/2-9.htm">Joshua 2:9</a>. The Targum renders it, <p>"the Word of the Lord is in the generation of the righteous.'' <p>(b) "justi", Montanus, Gejerus. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/psalms/14.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2"><span class="cverse3">{d}</span> There were they in great fear: for God <i>is</i> in the generation of the righteous.</span><p>(d) Where they think themselves most sure.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/psalms/14.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">5</span>. This verse is commonly explained to refer to the future, the perfect tense expressing the certain assurance of the Psalmist that judgement will be executed. Cp. <a href="/psalms/36-12.htm" title="There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.">Psalm 36:12</a>. But it is more natural to refer it to the past. ‘There’ points emphatically to some signal instance in which panic terror and overwhelming calamity overtook ‘the workers of iniquity.’ If <span class="ital"><a href="/psalms/14-4.htm" title="Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not on the LORD.">Psalm 14:4</a></span> may be understood of the oppression of Israel in Egypt, <span class="ital"><a href="/psalms/14-5.htm" title="There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.">Psalm 14:5</a></span> will refer to the overthrow of the Egyptians in the Red Sea (<a href="/context/exodus/14-24.htm" title="And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked to the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,...">Exodus 14:24-25</a>). <a href="/psalms/53-5.htm" title="There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you: you have put them to shame, because God has despised them.">Psalm 53:5</a> adds <span class="ital">where no fear was</span>, no natural cause for alarm.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">for God</span> &c.] Present among them to defend them. ‘The generation’ (see on <a href="/psalms/12-7.htm" title="You shall keep them, O LORD, you shall preserve them from this generation for ever.">Psalm 12:7</a>) ‘of the righteous’ is synonymous with ‘my people;’ either the nation, which might be so described in respect of its calling, and in contrast to its oppressors: or the godly part of it. Cp. <a href="/psalms/118-15.htm" title="The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.">Psalm 118:15</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/14.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 5.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">There were they in great fear</span>. "There" - in the midst of their evil-doing, while they are devouring God's people - a sudden terror seizes on them. <a href="/psalms/53-5.htm">Psalm 53:5</a> adds, "Where no fear was," which seems to imply a panic terror, like that which seized the Syrians when they were besieging Samaria (<a href="/2_kings/7-6.htm">2 Kings 7:6, 7</a>). For God is in the generation of the righteous. God's people cannot be attacked without provoking him; they ere in him, and he in them; he will assuredly come to their relief. Psalm 14:5<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/psalms/14.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>When Jahve thus bursts forth in scorn His word, which never fails in its working, smites down these brutish men, who are without knowledge and conscience. The local demonstrative שׁם is used as temporal in this passage just as in <a href="/psalms/66-6.htm">Psalm 66:6</a>; <a href="/hosea/2-17.htm">Hosea 2:17</a>; <a href="/zephaniah/1-14.htm">Zephaniah 1:14</a>; <a href="/job/23-7.htm">Job 23:7</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-12.htm">Job 35:12</a>, and is joined with the perfect of certainty, as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/36-13.htm">Job 36:13</a>, where it has not so much a temporal as a local sense. It does not mean "there equals at a future time," as pointing into the indefinite future, but "there equals then," when God shall thus speak to them in His anger. Intensity is here given to the verb פּחד by the addition of a substantival object of the same root, just as is frequently the case in the more elevated style, e.g., <a href="/habakkuk/3-9.htm">Habakkuk 3:9</a>; and as is done in other cases by the addition of the adverbial infinitive. Then, when God's long-suffering changes into wrath, terror at His judgement seizes them and they tremble through and through. This judgment of wrath, however, is on the other hand a revelation of love. Jahve avenges and thus delivers those whom He calls עמּי (My people); and who are here called דּור צדּיק, the generation of the righteous, in opposition to the corrupted humanity of the time (<a href="/psalms/12-8.htm">Psalm 12:8</a>), as being conformed to the will of God and held together by a superior spirit to the prevailing spirit of the age. They are so called inasmuch as דּור passes over from the signification generatio to that of genus hominum here and also elsewhere, when it is not merely a temporal, but a moral notion; cf. <a href="/psalms/24-6.htm">Psalm 24:6</a>; <a href="/psalms/83-15.htm">Psalm 83:15</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/112-2.htm">Psalm 112:2</a>, where it uniformly denotes the whole of the children of God who are in bondage in the world and longing for deliverance, not Israel collectively in antithesis to the Scythians and the heathen in general (Hitzig). <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/psalms/14-5.htm">Psalm 14:5 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/psalms/14-5.htm">Psalm 14:5 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/psalms/14-5.htm">Psalm 14:5 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/14-5.htm">Psalm 14:5 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/14-5.htm">Psalm 14:5 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/14-5.htm">Psalm 14:5 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/psalms/14-5.htm">Psalm 14:5 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/psalms/14-5.htm">Psalm 14:5 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/psalms/14-5.htm">Psalm 14:5 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/psalms/14-5.htm">Psalm 14:5 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/psalms/14-5.htm">Psalm 14:5 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/psalms/14-5.htm">Psalm 14:5 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/psalms/14-5.htm">Psalm 14:5 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../psalms/14-4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 14:4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 14:4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/14-6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 14:6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 14:6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>