For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.
Parallel translations
- WEB For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.
- KJV For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
- NKJV For the Lord will judge His people, And He will have compassion on His servants.
- NASB For the Lord will judge His people And will have compassion on His servants.
- NLT For the Lord will give justice to his people and have compassion on his servants.
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Yahweh will vindicate His people and show compassion to His servants.
Overview
Echoing the song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32, this verse promises that God will judge on behalf of His people and relent in mercy toward them. His justice and His compassion work together for the good of those who serve Him. This assurance of vindication and mercy is fully realized in Christ, who pleads for His people and will set all things right.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- 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.
- Jonah 4:2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
- Ps 7:8The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
- Ps 50:4He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
- Hos 11:8–9How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!
- Amos 7:6So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
- 1 Chr 21:15Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Amos 7:3So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
- Judg 10:16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
- Ps 90:13Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
- Ps 96:13before the LORD, for He is coming—He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.
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