You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
- KJV O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
- NKJV O Lord, You have seen how I am wronged; Judge my case.
- NASB Lord, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.
- NLT You have seen the wrong they have done to me, Lord. Be my judge, and prove me right.
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Quick answer
He asks the Lord, who has seen the wrong done to him, to judge his cause.
Overview
The poet appeals to God as righteous Judge to vindicate him against injustice. Confident that Yahweh has seen his mistreatment, he commits his case to God rather than taking vengeance. This entrusting of judgment to God reflects the faith later commended in Christ, who 'entrusted himself to him who judges justly' (1 Pet. 2:23).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 43:1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
- Ps 26:1Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
- Ps 35:1Of David. Contend with my opponents, O LORD; fight against those who fight against me.
- Ps 9:4For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
- 1 Pet 2:23When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.
- Gen 31:42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
- Jer 20:7–10You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
- Jer 37:1–21Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.
- Jer 18:18–23Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
- Ps 35:23Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!
- Jer 11:19–21For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
- Jer 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
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