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Sunday, October 6th, 2024
the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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King James Version

Psalms 9:4

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

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

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

Contextual Overview

1 I will praise thee, O Lord , with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High. 3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence. 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right. 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. 6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. 7 But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. 9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord , hast not forsaken them that 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 that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Genesis 9:14
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
Leviticus 3:17
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 7:26
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 19:26
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
Deuteronomy 14:21
Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

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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