It is time for the LORD to act, for they have broken Your law.
Parallel translations
- WEB It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
- KJV It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
- NKJV It is time for You to act, O Lord, For they have regarded Your law as void.
- NASB It is time for the Lord to act, For they have broken Your Law.
- NLT Lord, it is time for you to act, for these evil people have violated your instructions.
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Quick answer
He declares it is time for God to act, because people are breaking His law. Widespread lawlessness calls for God's intervention.
Overview
Grieved by rampant disregard for God's law, the psalmist calls on God to step in and act. His zeal is for God's honor, not merely his own relief. This cry for God to vindicate His own name and righteousness anticipates the day when Christ will return to judge and set all things right (2 Thess. 1:7-8; Ps. 102:13).
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Cross-references · 12
- Jer 8:8How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
- Hab 1:4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
- Mal 2:8But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Ps 9:19Rise up, O LORD, do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your presence.
- Rom 3:31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
- Rom 4:14For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,
- Matt 15:6he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
- Isa 42:14“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.
- Ps 102:13You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.
- Deut 32:36For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
- Gen 22:14And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
- Gen 22:10–11Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
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