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Psalms 58:11
Then men will say, “There is surely a reward for the righteous! There is surely a God who judges the earth!”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist, having prayed for the wicked's destruction (vv. 6–9), now projects the public verdict that follows their fall. The moment is the aftermath of divine justice executed; the audience is the onlooking world.
The words — פְּרִי (peri, "fruit") carries the verse: the reward of the righteous is not an abstract payment but the tangible produce of their standing before God. The double אַךְ (akh, "surely") hammers the certainty twice, as if the speaker cannot stop himself from insisting.
The thread — Isaiah 3:10 uses the same peri language: "they will enjoy the fruit of their labor." Psalm 67:4 echoes the judgment-of-the-earths motif.
Why it lands — The claim is not private comfort but a public declaration made by outsiders ("men will say"), demanding that the reader treat God's justice as something observable and testable in the world.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Cross-references
- Psalms 67:4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for You judge the peoples justly and lead the nations of the earth. Selah
- Isaiah 3:10 Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
- Psalms 33:18 Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
- Psalms 64:9 Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.
- Malachi 2:17 You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
- Malachi 3:14 You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
- Romans 2:5 But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
- Psalms 98:9 before the LORD, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.
- Romans 6:21 What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
- Psalms 73:13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.