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Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.
Psalms 9:19 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
  • BSB Rise up, O LORD, do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your presence.
  • NKJV Arise, O Lord, Do not let man prevail; Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
  • NASB Arise, Lord, do not let mankind prevail; Let the nations be judged before You.
  • NLT Arise, O Lord! Do not let mere mortals defy you! Judge the nations!

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Quick answer

David prays that God arise so that mere men may not prevail and the nations be judged. He appeals for God to assert His rule over arrogant humanity.

Overview

The psalmist calls on God to act, lest weak mortals presume to overpower His purposes. 'Arise, Yahweh' echoes Israel's ancient cry for God to march out against His foes (Numbers 10:35). It expresses the longing for God to manifest His judgment and reign over a rebellious world.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Ps 44:26Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.
  • Ps 44:23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
  • Ps 3:7Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
  • Rev 19:15Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.
  • Ps 10:12Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
  • Ps 7:6Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
  • Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
  • Ps 74:22–23Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
  • Ps 149:7To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;
  • Jer 10:25Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
  • Zeph 3:8“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
  • Joel 3:12“Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
  • Gen 32:28He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
  • 2 Chr 14:11Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”
  • Mic 5:15I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”
  • Zech 14:18If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of tents.
  • Ps 79:6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;
  • 1 Sam 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.
  • Ps 68:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.
  • Ps 76:8–9You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,
  • Isa 42:13–14Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.
  • Ps 2:1–3Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
  • Ps 80:2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

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