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Judgment will again be founded on justice, and those with virtuous hearts will pursue it.
Psalms 94:15 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
  • KJV But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
  • BSB Surely judgment will again be righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
  • NKJV But judgment will return to righteousness, And all the upright in heart will follow it.
  • NASB For judgment will again be righteous, And all the upright in heart will follow it.

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Quick answer

Justice will return to the righteous, and the upright in heart will follow it. God will set things right, vindicating those who are upright.

Overview

The psalmist trusts that the present perversion of justice is temporary; righteousness will be restored. When God acts, the upright will gladly walk in the justice He establishes. This anticipates the kingdom of Christ, in which righteousness fully dwells and the meek inherit the earth (2 Peter 3:13; Isaiah 9:7).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 19

  • Mic 7:9I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
  • Ps 37:34Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
  • Ps 97:2Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
  • Ps 125:3–5For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
  • Ps 7:8–9Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
  • Ps 9:16Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
  • Ps 94:2–3Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
  • Mal 3:18Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
  • Jas 5:7–11Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
  • Ps 58:11so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”
  • Job 35:14How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
  • Rev 15:3–4They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
  • 2 Pet 3:8–10But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
  • Job 23:11–12My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
  • Deut 32:35–36Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
  • 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
  • Isa 42:3He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
  • Job 17:9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
  • Ps 37:5–7Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

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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.

How Psalms 94:15 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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