It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
Parallel translations
- WEB It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
- BSB It is time for the LORD to act, for they have broken Your 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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- Jer 8:8How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
- Hab 1:4Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
- Mal 2:8But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Ps 9:19Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
- Rom 3:31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
- Rom 4:14For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
- Matt 15:6And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
- Isa 42:14I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
- Ps 102:13Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
- Deut 32:36For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
- Gen 22:14And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
- Gen 22:10–11And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
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