What Does Psalm 28:5 Mean in the King James?

Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Psalm 28:5 · KJV

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THE KEY

Not discerning the LORD’s work is no harmless oversight here: it ends in being destroyed and left unbuilt.

THE MEANING

The LORD’s work can be present and still go unrecognized. This verse speaks with severe force: those who disregard it are destroyed, and the text gives no promise that they will be built up again.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that ignoring the LORD’s work has no consequence as long as your own plans keep working.

THE ROOT

לֹא יָבִינוּ

lo yavinu

GROWS FROM

בין

To discern, distinguish, or understand.

“regard not” in this verse is lo yavinu. The word translated “regard” carries the sense of discernment: seeing what is happening and recognizing its nature. The verse describes more than overlooking the LORD’s work; it describes failing to perceive what that work reveals.

ALSO GROWS

binah: Understanding or insight.

בִּינָה

This branch names the discernment absent in the verse: the ability to recognize what the LORD is doing.

tevunah: Discernment or understanding.

תְּבוּנָה

It carries the same root into practical perception, showing that the failure here reaches how a person reads what is before them.

THE PATTERN

The works of God disclose what is real, and refusing to recognize them leaves apparent strength unable to endure.

And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

Isaiah 5:12 · KJVThe verse places celebration beside disregard for the LORD’s work, showing that abundance does not guarantee discernment.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Psalm 92:7 · KJVWhat appears to flourish does not necessarily endure; the verse echoes Psalm 28’s severe link between disregard and destruction.

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Romans 1:20 · KJVWhat is made makes the unseen perceptible, so the works of God stand as evidence that can be recognized.

THE THREAD

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

Psalm 92:6 · KJV

Psalm 92:6 uses the same root ⁨בּין⁩ (bin, discern or understand) behind “regard not.” It makes the failure to recognize the LORD’s works a failure of discernment, one the Psalm calls foolishness.

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