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Psalm 31:6

I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in the LORD.

4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.
5Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, LORD, God of truth.
6I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in the LORD.
7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
8You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
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“I hate” targets people who regard “lying vanities”; in this prayer for rescue, the strength of that rejection makes the turn toward trust in YHWH stand out.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Jonah 2:8Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.Both describe people who regard vain objects of devotion; Jonah names idols and the mercy their worshipers forsake.
Deuteronomy 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are …Both associate vanities with allegiance opposed to God, expressed through the psalmist’s hatred and God’s jealousy and anger.
Psalm 139:21LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?Both psalms express hatred toward people whose allegiance opposes the LORD.
Psalm 26:5Both use the words “I hate” for people whose commitments the speaker rejects.
Jeremiah 10:15They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.Both connect vanity with deception; Jeremiah adds that these objects of devotion will perish.
Psalm 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.Both reject attachment to falsehood, with Psalm 24 linking that rejection to clean hands and a pure heart.
Jeremiah 10:8But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.Both reject devotion to what is false or empty; Jeremiah names idols and exposes their material as wood.
1 Corinthians 10:20But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.Both reject religious allegiance directed away from God; Paul identifies Gentile sacrifices with demons and warns against fellowship with them.
Psalm 4:2You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? Selah.Both connect vanity with falsehood and challenge people’s attachment to them.
Romans 1:21Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.Both describe human attachment to what is vain, while naming God as the one deserving trust or honor.
1 Corinthians 8:4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.Both contrast empty objects of devotion with God; Paul states that no idol is anything and there is one God.
John 2:8He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it.No specific shared thread is clear: the psalm declares trust in the LORD, while John records Jesus’ instruction about serving.
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Encouragement

These are fierce words from someone seeking refuge in God, with no command to harm anyone. The verse ends with trust in YHWH, whom the surrounding prayer names the God of truth.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).