O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
- BSB You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate 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 43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- Ps 26:1Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
- Ps 35:1Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
- Ps 9:4For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
- 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
- Gen 31:42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
- Jer 20:7–10O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
- Jer 37:1–21And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
- Jer 18:18–23Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
- Ps 35:23Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
- Jer 11:19–21But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
- Jer 15:10Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
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