Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
Parallel translations
- WEB Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
- BSB Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
- NKJV Arise, O Lord, in Your anger; Lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies; Rise up for me to the judgment You have commanded!
- NASB ¶Arise, Lord, in Your anger; Raise Yourself against the rage of my enemies, And stir Yourself for me; You have ordered judgment.
- NLT Arise, O Lord, in anger! Stand up against the fury of my enemies! Wake up, my God, and bring justice!
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Quick answer
David calls on God to arise in righteous anger and execute the judgment He has appointed. He pleads for the just Judge to act against evil.
Overview
David summons God to rise up against the fury of his adversaries and carry out the judgment He has ordained. He appeals not to personal vengeance but to God's commitment to justice. This longing for God to set wrongs right finds its ultimate answer in Christ, to whom all judgment has been given (John 5:22).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 20
- Ps 44:23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
- Ps 35:23Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
- Isa 33:10Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
- Ps 3:7Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
- Ps 138:7Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
- Ps 103:6The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
- Ps 44:26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.
- Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
- Isa 37:20Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
- Isa 3:13The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
- Ps 73:20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
- Ps 74:3Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
- Ps 94:1–2O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
- Ps 68:1–2Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
- Ps 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
- Ps 59:5Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
- Ps 78:65Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
- Ps 35:1Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
- Ps 76:8–9Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
- 2 Sam 17:14And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
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