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Brenton's Septuagint

Psalms 9:4

For thou hast maintained my cause and my right; thou satest on the throne, that judgest righteousness.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   Thankfulness;   Throne;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Justice of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Noah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   English Versions;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Right;   Throne;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
For you have judged in my favor; from your throne you have judged with fairness.
English Revised Version
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging righteously.
Update Bible Version
For you have maintained my right and my cause; You sit in the throne judging righteously.
New Century Version
You have heard my complaint; you sat on your throne and judged by what was right.
New English Translation
For you defended my just cause; from your throne you pronounced a just decision.
Webster's Bible Translation
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou sattest on the throne judging right.
World English Bible
For you have maintained my right and my cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
Amplified Bible
For You have maintained my right and my cause; You have sat on the throne judging righteously.
English Standard Version
For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thou hast maad my doom and my cause; thou, that demest riytfulnesse, `hast set on the trone.
Berean Standard Bible
For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
Contemporary English Version
You take your seat as judge, and your fair decisions prove that I was in the right.
American Standard Version
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou sittest in the throne judging righteously.
Bible in Basic English
For you gave approval to my right and my cause; you were seated in your high place judging in righteousness.
Complete Jewish Bible
When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before you.
Darby Translation
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause. Thou sittest on the throne, judging righteously.
Easy-to-Read Version
You listened to me from your throne like a good judge, and you decided that I was right.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When mine enemies are turned back, they stumble and perish at Thy presence;
King James Version (1611)
For thou hast maintained my right, and my cause: thou satest in the throne iudging right.
New Life Bible
For You have stood by my right actions. You sit on Your throne, and are right in how You judge.
New Revised Standard
For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For thou hast maintained my right & my cause: thou art set in the throne, and iudgest right.
George Lamsa Translation
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou hast sat on the throne, O thou righteous judge.
Good News Translation
You are fair and honest in your judgments, and you have judged in my favor.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For thou hast executed my right and my cause, Thou hast sat on the throne, judging righteously:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(9-5) For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.
Revised Standard Version
For thou hast maintained my just cause; thou hast sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For that thou hast geuen iudgement in my ryght and cause: thou that iudgest right, hast sit in the throne of iudgement.
Christian Standard Bible®
For you have upheld my just cause;you are seated on your throne as a righteous judge.
Hebrew Names Version
For you have maintained my right and my cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
King James Version
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
Lexham English Bible
For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne judging correctly.
Literal Translation
For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat on the throne judging right.
Young's Literal Translation
For Thou hast done my judgment and my right. Thou hast sat on a throne, A judge of righteousness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thou hast manteyned my right and my cause: thou syttest in the Trone that art the true iudge.
New American Standard Bible
For You have maintained my just cause; You have sat on the throne judging righteously.
New King James Version
For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat on the throne judging in righteousness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For You have maintained my just cause; You have sat on the throne judging righteously.
Legacy Standard Bible
For You have maintained my justice and my cause;You have sat on the throne judging righteously.

Contextual Overview

1 I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all thy wonderful works. 2 I will be glad and exult in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou Most High. 3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at thy presence. 4 For thou hast maintained my cause and my right; thou satest on the throne, that judgest righteousness. 5 Thou hast rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever, even for ever and ever. 6 The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and thou hast destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise, 7 but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment. 8 And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness. 9 The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction. 10 And let them that know thy name hope in thee: for thou, O Lord, hast not failed them that diligently seek thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For: Psalms 16:5, Psalms 140:12

maintained: etc. Heb. made my judgment

right: Heb. in righteousness, Psalms 45:6, Psalms 45:7, Psalms 47:8, Psalms 89:14, Psalms 96:13, Psalms 98:9, Isaiah 11:4, 1 Peter 2:23

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:10 - give me 2 Samuel 18:19 - avenged him 1 Kings 8:45 - cause 2 Chronicles 6:35 - cause Psalms 119:43 - for I have Lamentations 3:59 - judge Romans 2:2 - judgment

Cross-References

Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature with you, of birds and of beasts, and with all the wild beasts of the earth, as many as are with you, of all that come out of the ark.
Genesis 9:14
And it shall be when I gather clouds upon the earth, that my bow shall be seen in the cloud.
Leviticus 3:17
It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your habitations; ye shall eat no fat and no blood.
Leviticus 7:26
as the Lord commanded to give to them in the day in which he anointed them of the sons of Israel, a perpetual statute through their generations.
Leviticus 19:26
Eat not on the mountains, nor shall ye employ auguries, nor divine by inspection of birds.
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it out on the ground as water.
Deuteronomy 12:23
Take diligent heed that thou eat no blood, for blood is the life of it; the life shall not be eaten with the flesh.
Deuteronomy 14:21
Ye shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in thy cities and he shall eat it, or thou shalt sell it to a stranger, because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother’s milk.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out on the earth as water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause,.... Or vindicated and established his righteous cause; God had pleaded and defended it, and by the flight, fall, and ruin of his enemies, had clearly made it appear that his cause was just and good;

thou sittest in the throne judging right; God has not only a throne of grace on which he sits, and from whence he distributes grace and mercy to his people, but he has a throne of judgment, and which is prepared for it, as in Psalms 9:7; where he sits as the Judge of all the earth, and will do right; nor can he do otherwise, though his judgments are not always manifest in the present state of things; and the vindication of the psalmist's innocence and uprightness is another reason of his joy and gladness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause - My righteous cause; that is, when he was unequally attacked. When his enemies came upon him in an unprovoked and cruel manner, God had interposed and had defended his cause. This shows that the psalmist refers to something that had occurred in the past; also that he regarded his cause as right - for the interposition of God in his behalf had confirmed him in this belief.

Thou satest in the throne judging right - As if he had been seated on a bench of justice, and bad decided on the merits of his cause before he interfered in his behalf. It was not the result of impulse, folly, partiality, or favoritism; it was because he had, as a judge, considered the matter, and had decided that the right was with the author of the psalm, and not with his enemies. As the result of that determination of the case, he had interposed to vindicate him, and to overthrow his adversaries. Compare Psalms 8:3-8.


 
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