תהלים 99:4

Hebrew Modern Translation

ועז מלך משפט אהב אתה כוננת מישרים משפט וצדקה ביעקב אתה עשית׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
מלך משפט אהב אתה כוננת מישרים משפט וצדקה ביעקב אתה עשית

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
וְעֹ֥ז מֶלֶךְ֮ מִשְׁפָּ֪ט אָ֫הֵ֥ב אַ֭תָּה כּוֹנַ֣נְתָּ מֵישָׁרִ֑ים מִשְׁפָּ֥ט וּ֝צְדָקָ֗ה בְּיַעֲקֹ֤ב ׀ אַתָּ֬ה עָשִֽׂיתָ ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
וְעֹז מֶלֶךְ מִשְׁפָּט אָהֵב אַתָּה כּוֹנַנְתָּ מֵישָׁרִים מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה בְּיַעֲקֹב ׀ אַתָּה עָשִֽׂיתָ ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

strength: Psalms 45:6, Psalms 45:7, Psalms 72:1, Psalms 72:2, Deuteronomy 32:3, Deuteronomy 32:4, 2 Samuel 23:3, 2 Samuel 23:4, Job 36:5-7, Job 37:23, Isaiah 11:3-5, Jeremiah 23:5, Revelation 19:11, Revelation 19:16

thou dost: Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 42:4, Isaiah 61:11

executest: Deuteronomy 10:18, Jude 1:15

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 9:8 - to do judgment Job 8:3 - Almighty Psalms 9:8 - General Psalms 11:7 - For Psalms 21:1 - joy Psalms 33:5 - He Psalms 37:28 - loveth Psalms 48:1 - Great Psalms 48:10 - thy right Psalms 54:1 - judge Psalms 89:14 - Justice Psalms 97:2 - righteousness Psalms 119:137 - General Psalms 145:17 - righteous Psalms 148:13 - for his name Proverbs 8:15 - decree Proverbs 16:10 - A divine sentence Proverbs 16:12 - for Proverbs 20:8 - General Proverbs 29:4 - king Song of Solomon 5:14 - hands Isaiah 16:5 - judging Isaiah 30:18 - for the Lord Isaiah 32:1 - king Isaiah 41:10 - the right Isaiah 61:8 - I the Lord Jeremiah 4:2 - in truth Jeremiah 9:24 - for Daniel 4:37 - all Zephaniah 3:5 - just John 8:16 - yet 2 Thessalonians 1:5 - righteous Hebrews 1:8 - a sceptre Revelation 15:3 - just

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The King's strength also loveth judgment,.... Or he who is a strong and mighty King, as Christ is; which appears by saving his people, and preserving them to his kingdom and glory, and by destroying all his and their enemies; but, though he is so potent and victorious a Prince, yet no tyrannical one, he loves and does what is just and righteous; he loved the righteous law of God, and obeyed it in the whole course of his life; he wrought out a perfect righteousness for his people, and encourages and loves righteousness in them; he will judge the world in righteousness hereafter; and is now on his throne, and in his kingdom, ordering it with judgment and justice; all the administrations of his kingly office are just and true, and herein he delights:

thou dost establish equity, or "equities" a; uprightnesses, righteousnesses; a perfect and a complete righteousness:

this he has prepared b, as the word signifies, by his obedience, sufferings, and death, and has established as an everlasting one; moreover, equity, righteousness, and justice, are the settled rules and laws of his government; see Isaiah 9:7,

thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob; among the true Israel and people of God, as David his type did, 2 Samuel 8:15, thereby keeping them in due order, in the observance of his righteous judgments and statutes, and defending them from their enemies.

a מישרים "rectitudines", Montanus, Gejerus, Michaelis; "aequitates", Vatablus; "recta", Musculus. b כוננת "parasti", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Gejerus; "praeparasti", Tigure version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The king’s strength - The word king here undoubtedly refers to God as a king, Psalms 99:1. The word rendered “strength,” means power, force; and the reference here is to what constitutes the main strength or power of his character and government. It is rendered in the Septuagint, τιμή timē - “honor.” So in the Latin Vulgate - ”honor.” DeWette renders it, “The praise of the king who loves judgment.” So Rosenmuller, “Let them praise the strength - the power - of the king who loves judgment.” But perhaps our common version best expresses the sense, that whatever there is in the character of the “king,” that is God, which constitutes strength, or gives power to his administration, is favorable to justice, or will be exerted in the cause of right. God’s essential character; all the acts of his power; all the demonstrations of his authority, will be in favor of justice, and may be relied on as sustaining the righteous cause. It is not the “mere” exertion of power - it is power that is always exercised in favor of right; and this lays the foundation of praise. We could not praise a being of “mere” power, or one who was merely “almighty,” without respect to his moral character. It is only when the character is such that power will be exerted in favor of that which is right and just that it becomes the proper subject of praise.

Loveth judgment - Is always on the side of justice and right. He so loves justice that his power will be put forth only in behalf of that which is right. God shows this by his law, and by all the acts of his administration.

Thou dost establish equity - That which is equal and just; alike by thy law, and by thine interpositions. All that thou doest, and all that thou dost appoint, is in favor of that which is equal and just.

Thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob - That which is just; that which ought to be done. Thou doest this among thy people; thou doest it in their relation to the surrounding nations. All the acts of thy administration tend to the establishment of that which is right.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 99:4. The king's strength — If this Psalm were written by David, he must mean by it that he was God's vicegerent or deputy, and that, even as king, God was his strength, and the pattern according to which equity, judgment, and righteousness should be executed in Jacob.