What Does Psalm 7:11 Mean in the King James?
God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Righteous judgment and indignation are not occasional reactions here; the verse makes them a daily response to what is aligned and what is wicked.
THE MEANING
God’s judgment is present where righteousness stands, and God’s indignation meets wickedness every day. The verse speaks now: wickedness is never neutralized by repetition or hidden in the passing of days.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that God’s response to wrongdoing is absent or only occasional: this verse calls divine indignation daily.
THE ROOT
צַדִּיק
tsaddiq
GROWS FROM
צדק
ṣ-d-q
to be right or just; alignment
“Righteous” belongs to the same root family as rightness and justice. The Hebrew places it beside the word for judging, linking the verse’s judgment with alignment.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: rightness, justice
צֶדֶק
It shows that the quality called “righteous” belongs to a wider idea of what is right and just.
tzedakah: righteousness, justice
צְדָקָה
This branch carries the same root into the practice or expression of justice.
שֹׁפֵט
shōfēt
GROWS FROM
שפט
sh-p-t
to judge, decide, administer justice
“judgeth” in this verse is shōfēt. The Hebrew places “judge” and “righteous” side by side; the phrase can be heard as God judging the righteous or as God being a righteous judge. Either way, judgment and alignment are joined in the verse.
ALSO GROWS
mishpat: judgment, justice
מִשְׁפָּט
It names the judgment carried by the verb, showing that the act has a wider shape of justice.
shafat: to judge, decide
שָׁפַט
The verb form makes judgment an active response, not merely a distant title.
זֹעֵם
zōʿēm
GROWS FROM
זעם
z-ʿ-m
to be indignant; to express strong disapproval
“angry” in this verse is zōʿēm. The word names indignation directed toward wickedness, and “every day” makes that response continual. The verse presents this as a steady feature of the present, not a rare outburst.
ALSO GROWS
zāʿam: to be indignant
זָעַם
This verbal form shows the response as an active stance toward wickedness.
zaʿam: indignation
זַעַם
The related noun names the response expressed by the word translated “angry.”
THE PATTERN
Divine judgment holds people answerable and is measured by righteousness.
Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.Who will render to every man according to his deeds:And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:THE THREAD
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.Psalm 7:11 uses צַדִּיק (tsaddiq, righteous), while Psalm 9:8 uses צֶדֶק (tsedeq, righteousness), forms from the same root, צדק (ṣ-d-q), alignment. That shared root links the person called righteous with the righteousness accompanying God’s judgment of the world.
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