For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
Parallel translations
- WEB For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.
- BSB For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on 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.
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- 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.
- Jonah 4:2And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
- Ps 7:8The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
- Ps 50:4He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
- Hos 11:8–9How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
- Amos 7:6The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
- 1 Chr 21:15And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Amos 7:3The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
- Judg 10:16And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
- Ps 90:13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
- Ps 96:13Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
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