Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.
Parallel translations
- KJV Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
- BSB Vindicate me by Your righteousness, O LORD my God, and do not let them gloat over me.
- NKJV Vindicate me, O Lord my God, according to Your righteousness; And let them not rejoice over me.
- NASB Judge me, Lord my God, according to Your righteousness, And do not let them rejoice over me.
- NLT Declare me not guilty, O Lord my God, for you give justice. Don’t let my enemies laugh about me in my troubles.
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 43:1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
- Ps 26:1By David. Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
- Ps 7:8Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
- Ps 35:19Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
- 2 Th 1:6Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
- Job 20:5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
- Ps 18:20–24Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
- 1 Pet 2:22who did not sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
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