Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
- BSB Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
- NKJV Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
- NASB ¶Your throne, God, is forever and ever; The scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of justice.
- NLT Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever. You rule with a scepter of justice.
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- Heb 1:8–9But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
- Ps 93:2Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.
- John 1:1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- Isa 9:6–7For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Jer 23:5–6“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
- Jer 33:15–16“In those days, and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
- Ps 145:13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.
- Dan 2:44In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
- Luke 1:32–33He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,
- 1 Tim 3:16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
- Ps 89:36–37His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
- Ps 89:29I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
- Rev 19:11I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
- Ps 72:1–20By Solomon. God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
- Ps 98:9Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
- 2 Sam 23:4shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
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