The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked,God tests everyone. That would mean that all who are wicked, and all who are righteous, get tested. But we don't all get tested the same way. God knows where each of us needs improvement the most, and how to test us to bring that improvement about, if we so choose. For some, that test may involve violence.
And the one who loves violence his soul hates.
That violence can change people. Some it causes to retreat, to make themselves less likely to be subject, or even around, violence again. Some accept what has happened, and continue on. Some become champions of anti-violence campaigns, trying to rid the world of what did them harm. But some learn to like the violence, to seek to do it more because it brings them power, or pleasure, or advancement. Violence is at times a necessary tool, but it should never be sought. I think these are the ones who God is opposed to in this passage.
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