תהלים 9:4

Hebrew Modern Translation

כי עשית משפטי ודיני ישבת לכסא שופט צדק׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
[9:5] משפטי ודיני ישבת לכסא שופט צדק

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
[9:5] כִּֽי־עָ֭שִׂיתָ מִשְׁפָּטִ֣י וְדִינִ֑י יָשַׁ֥בְתָּ לְ֝כִסֵּ֗א שׁוֹפֵ֥ט צֶֽדֶק ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
[9:5] כִּֽי־עָשִׂיתָ מִשְׁפָּטִי וְדִינִי יָשַׁבְתָּ לְכִסֵּא שׁוֹפֵט צֶֽדֶק ׃

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

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.