O Lord, You have seen how I am wronged; Judge my case.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
- KJV O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
- BSB You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
- 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, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
- Ps 26:1By David. Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
- Ps 35:1By David. Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
- Ps 9:4For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
- 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
- Gen 31:42Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
- Jer 20:7–10Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all day. Every one mocks me.
- Jer 37:1–21Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
- Jer 18:18–23Then they said, “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 strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
- Ps 35:23Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
- Jer 11:19–21But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, 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 you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet everyone of them curses me.
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