For the Lord will judge 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.
- 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.
- 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 Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
- Jonah 4:2He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
- Ps 7:8Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
- Ps 50:4He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
- Hos 11:8–9“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
- Amos 7:6Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- 1 Chr 21:15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Amos 7:3Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.
- Judg 10:16They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
- Ps 90:13Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
- Ps 96:13before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.
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