Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.
Parallel translations
- KJV Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
- BSB May my vindication come from Your presence; may Your eyes see what is right.
- NKJV Let my vindication come from Your presence; Let Your eyes look on the things that are upright.
- NASB Let my judgment come forth from Your presence; Let Your eyes look with integrity.
- NLT Declare me innocent, for you see those who do right.
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 37:6he will make your righteousness go out as the light, and your justice as the noon day sun.
- 2 Th 1:6–9Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
- Ezek 18:29Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?
- Ezek 18:25“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?
- Jude 1:24Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
- Ezek 33:17Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
- Ps 37:33Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
- Ezek 33:20Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.
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