The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
- BSB The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
- NKJV The Lord shall judge the peoples; Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, And according to my integrity within me.
- NASB The Lord judges the peoples; Vindicate me, Lord, according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me.
- NLT The Lord judges the nations. Declare me righteous, O Lord, for I am innocent, O Most High!
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As God judges the peoples, David asks to be judged according to his righteousness and integrity. He confidently submits his cause to the righteous Judge.
Overview
David asks the Judge of all the earth to vindicate him on the merits of his integrity in this matter. His plea is for a just verdict, not a claim of total sinlessness. Believers ultimately stand before God not on their own righteousness but on the perfect righteousness of Christ credited to them by faith (2 Corinthians 5:21).
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- Ps 96:13Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
- Rom 14:10–12But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
- 2 Cor 1:12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
- Ps 43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- 1 Th 2:10Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
- Ps 98:9Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
- Ps 26:1Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
- Ps 78:72So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
- 1 Cor 4:4–5For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
- Ps 35:24–27Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
- Ps 9:8And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
- Ps 11:4The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
- 2 Chr 20:12O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
- Ps 26:11But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
- Gen 18:25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
- Ps 25:21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
- Ps 41:12And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
- Gen 31:53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
- Ps 17:2–3Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
- Ps 18:20–24The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
- Acts 17:31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
- Prov 19:1Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
- Ps 82:1God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
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