PSA 9:4 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) because you have accepted my claim and decided the case in my favour.
⇔ You have sat on your throne—a judge who always decides fairly.

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Ἐν τῷ ἀποστραφῆναι τὸν ἐχθρόν μου εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω, ἀσθενήσουσι καὶ ἀπολοῦνται ἀπὸ προσώπου σου.
(En tōi apostrafaʸnai ton eⱪthron mou eis ta opisō, asthenaʸsousi kai apolountai apo prosōpou sou. )

BrTr When mine enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at thy presence.

ULT For you have done my justice and my claim;
⇔ you have sat on your throne, a judge of righteousness!

UST You are angry because you have found my legal case to be righteous and my enemies’ to be wicked.
⇔ You sit on a throne like a king judging everything rightly.

BSB For You have upheld my just cause;
⇔ You sit on Your throne judging righteously.

OEB ⇔ My right and my claim you have upheld,
⇔ you did sit on the throne as a fair judge,

WEBBE For you have maintained my just cause.
⇔ You sit on the throne judging righteously.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET For you defended my just cause;
⇔ from your throne you pronounced a just decision.

LSV For You have done my judgment and my right. You have sat on a throne,
Judging [with] righteousness.

FBV For you have judged that I am right; you have decided fairly from your throne of judgment.

T4T You sat on your throne to judge people,
⇔ and you have judged fairly/justly concerning me.

LEB • For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne judging correctly.

BBE For you gave approval to my right and my cause; you were seated in your high place judging in righteousness.

Moff thou hast upheld my cause, my rights
⇔ passing just sentence, seated on thy throne;

JPS (9-5) For Thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou sattest upon the throne as the righteous Judge.

ASV For thou hast maintained my right and my cause;
⇔ Thou sittest in the throne judging righteously.

DRA When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened and perish before thy face.

YLT For Thou hast done my judgment and my right. Thou hast sat on a throne, A judge of righteousness.

Drby For thou hast maintained my right and my cause. Thou sittest on the throne, judging righteously.

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

Wbstr For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou sattest on the throne judging right.

KJB-1769 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.[fn][fn]
(For thou/you hast maintained my right and my cause; thou/you satest in the throne judging right. )

9.4 maintained…: Heb. made my judgment

9.4 judging right: Heb. judging in righteousness

KJB-1611 [fn][fn]For thou hast maintained my right, and my cause: thou satest in the throne iudging right.
(For thou/you hast maintained my right, and my cause: thou/you satest in the throne judging right.)

9:4 Hebr. thou hast made my iudgement.

9:4 Hebr. in righteousnes

Bshps For that thou hast geuen iudgement in my ryght and cause: thou that iudgest right, hast sit in the throne of iudgement.
(For that thou/you hast given judgement in my right and cause: thou/you that judgest right, hast sit in the throne of judgement.)

Gnva For thou hast maintained my right and my cause: thou art set in the throne, and iudgest right.
(For thou/you hast maintained my right and my cause: thou/you art set in the throne, and judgest right. )

Cvdl For thou hast manteyned my right and my cause: thou syttest in the Trone that art the true iudge.
(For thou/you hast manteyned my right and my cause: thou/you syttest in the Throne that art the true judge.)

Wycl For thou turnest myn enemy abac; thei schulen be maad feble, and schulen perische fro thi face.
(For thou/you turnest mine enemy abac; they should be made feble, and should perish from thy/your face.)

Luth daß du meine Feinde hinter sich getrieben hast; sie sind gefallen und umkommen vor dir.
(that you(sg) my enemies behind itself/yourself/themselves getrieben hast; they/she/them are gefallen and umkommen before/in_front_of to_you.)

ClVg In convertendo inimicum meum retrorsum; infirmabuntur, et peribunt a facie tua.[fn]
(In convertendo inimicum mine retrorsum; infirmabuntur, and peribunt from face your. )

9.4 In convertendo inimicum meum, etc., peribunt, etc. AUG. Quia dum diabolum convertisti retro, membra infirmantur, ut nil nocere possint, et non erunt, vel, destruentur ex toto ab impugnatione tua, cum dices, Ite, maledicti Matth. 25., vel, peribunt cum aufert Deus ab eis iniquitatem.

9.4 In convertendo inimicum mine, etc., peribunt, etc. AUG. Because while diabolum convertisti retro, members infirmantur, as nil nocere possint, and not/no erunt, vel, destruentur from toto away impugnatione your, when/with dices, Ite, maledicti Matth. 25., vel, peribunt when/with aufert God away to_them iniquity.

TTN Tyndale Theme Notes:

Praise Psalms

The Hebrew title of the book of Psalms means “Praises,” and that title accurately defines a large number of the psalms. God is praised throughout the psalms for his nature and for his great acts in creation and history. Praise psalms were written for individual use and for the community.

Individual praise (Pss 9; 18; 32; 34; 116; 138). It was customary in Temple worship for people to give verbal thanks in front of the whole assembly whenever they made a vow offering or a thank offering (see, e.g., 22:22-26; 66:13-20; 116:17-19). Such opportunities for personal praise and testimony must have added warmth and significance to worship. Each act of rescue and every experience of God’s mercy became part of the cumulative, ongoing story of salvation. Worship was not simply a recital of God’s deeds in earlier centuries.

Communal praise (Pss 103, 113, 124, 129, 136). When the community gathered, they praised the Lord in song for his acts in history (Ps 103) or for a specific recent manifestation of his mercy (Pss 124, 129). In Psalm 103, the psalmist praises God for his mercy to each individual (103:1-5) and to the whole community (103:6-14). The frailty of humanity contrasts with God’s constancy (103:15-18); his universal and absolute rule merits universal praise (103:19-22).

Passages for Further Study

Pss 9; 18; 32; 34; 46–48; 93; 96–99; 103; 113; 116; 124; 129; 136; 138

UTN uW Translation Notes:

עָ֭שִׂיתָ